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BumRushDaShow

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Mon Jan 20, 2025, 04:28 PM Jan 20

Texas could join Louisiana with a law to require the Ten Commandments in classrooms [View all]

Source: NPR

January 20, 2025 2:00 PM ET


Key Texas legislators say they intend to pass a law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms. The move would add some big-state momentum to a trend started by Louisiana last year with a law that is blocked in court but has other states looking at similar proposals.

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, a Republican, signaled the move last year after Louisiana's law passed. He said Texas should have been the first in the nation to adopt it and he swore the state would in 2025. He named it as one of the leading conservative priorities. The state's legislative session began this month and is scheduled to end in June.

A federal judge in Louisiana called that state's version of the law "overtly religious" and unconstitutional when blocking it in November. The case is being appealed and Republican attorneys general from 18 states have joined to support it.

Supporters say history is at stake

As in other states, Texas proponents argue that the commandments are a historical document. "To be honest, if you don't know the Ten Commandments, you don't really know the basis for much of American history and law. It played such a role in our founding and among our founders," said state Sen. Phil King, a Republican from outside of Fort Worth who will help to lead the Texas effort. "In fact, few documents have had a bigger impact on not just the United States but on Western civilization in general than the Ten Commandments."

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2025/01/20/nx-s1-5230486/texas-ten-commandments-schools-legislature

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What happened to religious freedom of the !st Amendment? Everyone isn't a Christian. brush Jan 20 #1
Our legal system owes more to the pagan Anglo-Saxons than to the Hebrew Bible DBoon Jan 20 #2
Why not hang a copy of Charlton Heston's walk of fame star along with them? RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Jan 20 #3
The Ten Commandments is Trump's "to do" list. surfered Jan 20 #4
I want religion taught in schools - as long as it's my religion. nature-lover Jan 20 #5
If they force children to follow that, then there should be far less republicans when they turn 18. C Moon Jan 20 #6
The Republic of Gilead Miguelito Loveless Jan 20 #7
One step closer to living in caves again. twodogsbarking Jan 20 #8
The peculiar thing is the 10Cs came from Moses Bluetus Jan 20 #9
Many ancient history scholars believe it originated from the Egyptian "Negative Confessions" BumRushDaShow Jan 20 #11
Some of these values are commun to hundreds or thousands Bluetus Jan 20 #14
The irony is that the old testament that christians claim to believe in JoseBalow Jan 20 #15
Beyond that, Mark 15:3 (of the New Testament) Bluetus Jan 20 #17
He was considered a heretic BumRushDaShow Jan 21 #24
Yes they are "moral codes" BumRushDaShow Jan 20 #16
Jewish people know they don't have the numbers to do that. Old Crank Jan 21 #23
It has one benefit. The kids will be able to see how many commandments the adults regularly break. patphil Jan 20 #10
Put up more statues of Baphomet in protest sakabatou Jan 20 #12
Ten Commandments are just empty words to republicans. keithbvadu2 Jan 20 #13
History is at stake? lonely bird Jan 20 #18
I just dont get what Figarosmom Jan 20 #19
I agree, all they want is "liberal tears". Let's not give it to them Walleye Jan 21 #26
May they be sued by every non-Christian group. Beacool Jan 20 #20
... Be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves; for a man who hears without doing struggle4progress Jan 20 #21
Establishing religious dominance Old Crank Jan 21 #22
I was in a religious school grades 1-2. The 10 commandments were posted. travelingthrulife Jan 21 #25
Maybe it'll give the school shooters a good target to shoot at with their A.R. 15s Walleye Jan 21 #27
"Fuck your free will, Americans." - G.O.P. Idolators, Inc. BoRaGard Jan 21 #28
Yet they worship BigMin28 Jan 21 #29
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