Remember Mormon release time?
This goes way beyond that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Released_time


https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/20/texas-senate-passes-ten-commandments-bill/


Public schools in Texas would have to prominently display the Ten Commandments in every classroom starting next school year under a bill the Texas Senate approved Thursday.

Senate Bill 1515 by Sen. Phil King, R-Weatherford, now heads to the House for consideration.

This is the latest attempt from Texas Republicans to inject religion into public schools. In 2021, state Sen. Bryan Hughes, a Mineola Republican, authored a bill that became law requiring schools to display donated “In God We Trust” signs.

King said during a committee hearing earlier this month that the Ten Commandments are part of American heritage and it’s time to bring them back into the classroom. He said the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for his bill after it sided with Joe Kennedy, a high school football coach in Washington state who was fired for praying at football games. The court ruled that was praying as a private citizen, not as an employee of the district.

“[The bill] will remind students all across Texas of the importance of the fundamental foundation of America,” King said during that hearing.

The Senate also gave final passage to Senate Bill 1396, authored by Sen. Mayes Middleton, R-Galveston, which would allow public and charter schools to adopt a policy requiring every campus to set aside a time for students and employees to read the Bible or other religious texts and to pray.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said in a statement that both bills are wins for religious freedom in Texas.

"... or other religious texts..."

I realize that the Kama Sutra is not a religious text but I bet a lot of Texans think it is.

And if say it's fundamental to my religion, that should be enough!

I wonder if someone could find ten commandments in the Kama Sutra...

> I wonder if someone could find ten commandments in
> the Kama Sutra...

If you don't know, I'm not going to tell you.

... couldn't you, at least, point?

Isn't it on Kindle?

I want the benefits without the effort...  Sue me!

Unfricking believable.

Where's the bill demanding churches have to set aside "science time" at their services?

Too bad other legislators don't introduce amendments to add Book of Mormon, Torah, Quran and maybe a few other religion "holy books" to the mandatory list.

A number of Texas teachers are saying that they will have that covered, along with the Rede of Paganism, the Satanic commandments, etc.

This is nothing but political posturing. This will never pass but if it did, it opens up pandora's box to every nutty religion.

Well, IMO it will be yet another topic for SCOTUS. The Supremes have really opened up a can of worms with prior rulings, so I hope that they are prepared to be overwhelmed with these sorts of cases. The religious nutters must have their day in the sun.

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> Well, IMO it will be yet another topic for SCOTUS.
> The Supremes have really opened up a can of worms
> with prior rulings, so I hope that they are
> prepared to be overwhelmed with these sorts of
> cases. The religious nutters must have their day
> in the sun.

SCOTUS has pretty much destroyed its legitimacy with several recent rulings. It no longer even respects the prior rulings of the court.

It certainly no longer respects the rules for how our court system is supposed to operate.

the High School that some of my grands attended has a “G” with the Masonic square near the main entrance, I ( not a resident of that district) asked why, but I never got a direct answer/ reply / response...

The Ten Commandments are a disaster. The first four are basically god-narcissism. The one about not coveting is anti-capitalist. So half of them are bull**** right from the get-go.

And capital punishment for sassing mom seems a little extreme.

> And capital punishment for sassing mom seems a
> little extreme.

You've obviously never been a mom.

In Bible study, they can debate all 10 or 11 or 613 or the Code of Hammurabi or the Covenant Code or whatever stuff is in the New Testament. Give up shellfish (sorry, Galveston), and pork (sorry all y’all <- not redundant).

But will it pass The Lemon Test? God knows they’re not studying the Constitution.

Yup.

One thing they never say is which Ten Commandments they want posted. Catholics and Protestants number them differently. They probably want the King James Version, which is not what Catholics use. I wonder if there will be disagreement about this.

I suspect that Catholics are outnumbered in Texas and hence don't have rights.

...or they don't speak English?

That, too.

This all has gone way beyond amusing to terrifying. And with all due respect to moehoward, it could very easily pass in the legislature, and the courts all the way to SCOTUS can very easily uphold it.

Yes, because posting "Thou shalt not kill" in Uvalde would have made all the difference. /s

Dumb dumb dumb

Been there done it. It was called seminary.