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We live in a secular society. PUBLIC schools CANNOT, Constitutionally, REQUIRE that a religious text be part of the curriculum for students. They CANNOT.
There will be a lawsuit, the case will make it to the Supreme Court, and the Texas law will be struck down.
We live in a secular society. PUBLIC schools CANNOT, Constitutionally, REQUIRE that a religious text be part of the curriculum for students. They CANNOT.
There will be a lawsuit, the case will make it to the Supreme Court, and the Texas law will be struck down.
The Bill just says that high schools must offer a Bible class as an elective if 15 students sign up for it. It's no different than studying Marxism - you don't have to agree with the philosophy to study it. Likewise you can study evolution without agreeing with it.
Pretty sneaky. This is Texas we're talking about here. You can BET that 15 Christian students will sign up for it. The teachers will NOT teach it critically, and the students will proselytize. This is just a way for the Texan freaks to get religion into the schools.
Someone will sue and the law will be thrown out. Count on it.
That's a very good point. What if a child wants to study the Koran, is that an option as well, or how about Scientology? It all boils down to state funding for religious indoctrination, plain and simple. If your child wants to take a course on "The Bible" so badly, how about pay for it out of your own pocket when they go to college, that way tax dollars aren't supporting religion.
Not really. The justification for the Texas requirement is that students know the Bible's importance in the founding of the US. The course should be one of facts, not beliefs. That is why the course is best taught by someone who knows how the Bible is intertwined with US history, but is not a believer in the Bible as literal truth.
It's tricky, indeed. The law will not survive. Unless the public schools are willing to offer an "elective" in the study of the Koran and the Torah, as well--the other leading religious texts of this nation.
The problem is that Texas ranks 48th in so many other things, as I found in my reseach:
Like 48th in the % of parents who read to their kids.
48th (as measured from best to worst) in teen pregancy rates.
So making sure that Billy Clyde Jr and Daisy's souls are safe (while their butts are in such danger on Earth in Texas) seems very stupid to me and others from outside the Lone Star state.
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