The Supreme Court banned this in 1963.
Friends,
Late last week, the Texas State Board of Education voted to make Bible passages required reading for all 5 million public school children in the state.
That means a kid in El Paso, whose parents may pray differently or not at all, is now required by Texas law to read Psalms in class.
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A tenth-grader in Houston whose teacher is just trying to get through the semester will be required by law to cover Biblical texts as part of the official curriculum.
The Supreme Court said no to this in 1963, 8-1, because mandatory Bible reading in public schools violates the First Amendment. It wasn’t even close.
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But the people behind this never accepted that answer, and now they have an administration that won’t make them.
Devout followers of all religious traditions have long said that asking the government to do our religious education has never been a good idea.
Texas has done just that with the full blessing of the Trump administration and Christian Nationalism.
That’s because Christian Nationalism has nothing to do with faith and everything to do with power. It’s using the name of religion to control what children learn, whose story gets centered, and who gets to define what it means to be American.
We’re not going to sit around and allow Christian Nationalism to take over, not in the name of faith and not in the name of this country.
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