Texas will require public school classrooms to display Ten Commandments under bill nearing passage

[In It to Win It]

Come September, every public school classroom in Texas could be required to display the Ten Commandments under a requirement that passed a key vote in the Texas legislature Saturday — part of a larger push in Texas and beyond to increase the role of religion in schools.

Senate Bill 10 moved forward despite a federal court ruling that a similar Louisiana law violated a constitutionally required separation of church and state.

The bill preliminarily passed the House 88-49 on Saturday — the Jewish Sabbath day, which the Ten Commandments forbids, as Rep. James Talarico said in an effort to highlight legislative hypocrisy. The lower chamber’s initial approval came after more than two hours of debate and despite last-ditch Democratic efforts to water down the law, including giving school districts the opportunity to vote on the policy, and adding codes of ethics from different faiths into the bill.

On Sunday, the House passed the bill 82-46, but clarified in it that the state would be responsible for any legal fees if a school district were to be sued over the policy. With the amendment, the bill must go back to the Senate for final approval, which passed it 20-11 in March. If the Senate approves it, the bill then heads to Gov. Greg Abbott, who is expected to sign it.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-require-public-school-classrooms-003850456.html

[Skittles]

1. Texas is big on religious crap

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following its actual teachings......not so much

[JCMach1]

5. Lt.. Gov. Dan Patrick has his own rw Talibornagain agenda

He has been flexing this legislative session probably to elbow his way into the next gubernatorial race.

[Skittles]

8. he is a Texas size piece of shit

but then, they all are

[JCMach1]

11. Mos defly

[Dave Bowman]

2. They should require public schools to display something from Tolkien or the Fight Club rules while they're at it.

[msongs]

3. next to a pic of trump with ones he violated highted in red - fornication, adultery, theft, false witness etc

[wcmagumba]

4. What, no Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic or Flying Spaghetti Monster wisdom?

[jmowreader]

6. Oh my...

According to Rep. Candy Noble, who's pushing this bill through the Texas House, “It is incumbent on all of us to follow God’s law and I think we would all be better off if we did.”

Six months from now...

"Mr. Smith, you stand here accused of the following crime: On the 9th of November, a Sunday, at 1:30 pm you allegedly walked into the Whataburger restaurant at 3124 North 16th Street in the City of Orange carrying an AR-15 rifle and 500 rounds of ammunition. You then allegedly proceeded to shoot to death everyone in the restaurant. How do you plead?"

"I plead Exodus 31.15. 'For six days work is to be done, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death.'"

"So, you're saying you did it and we can drop the 'alllegedly' thing?"

"You're damn straight I did it. Someone has to uphold God's Law. No one can work on the Sabbath and no one can encourage people to violate God's Law by trading with them."

"Did you know at the time you did this that every single patron of this restaurant was a member of your own church? Or that five of the people you killed were your pastor, his wife and their three children?"

"Of course I did, and seeing as how they were all church going people they should have known better than to enter a den of iniquity on the Lord's Day."

"Den of iniquity? A Whataburger?"

"Deuteronomy 14.21 says not to cook a kid in its mother's milk. This means no damned cheeseburgers. Those who sell or eat cheeseburgers in violation of Scripture are wicked in the sight of God and will burn for eternity in the lake of fire."

"Mr. Smith, do you realize Romans 13.1 says to obey the law? That our lawmakers were placed in their seats by God and are doing His will, and that all the laws written by mortal man are ordained by God?"

"What does that mean?"

"It means don't shoot up burger joints, you ignorant fuck!"

[Norrrm]

7. Which version is to be the official state approved version?

There are differences.

[hunter]

9. It's so children can aspire to be a great man like Trump...

... and break them all.

[Morbius]

10. Even this ridiculous SCOTUS will drop kick this idiocy.

It violates the first amendment, full stop.