The Texas measure easily passed in the Republican-controlled state House and Senate in the legislative session that ended June 2.

Texas will require all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments under a new law that will make the state the nation’s largest to attempt to impose such a mandate.

Gov. Greg Abbott announced Saturday that he signed the bill, which is expected to draw a legal challenge from critics who consider it an unconstitutional violation of the separation of church and state.

A similar law in Louisiana was blocked when a federal appeals court ruled Friday that it was unconstitutional. Arkansas also has a similar law that has been challenged in federal court.

    • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
      48·
      9 days ago

      It’s part of the strategy. Keep people’s heads spinning and see what sticks. Even if one or two things survive, it pushes everything towards their goal.

    • LupusBlackfur@lemmy.world
      21·
      9 days ago

      If at first you don’t get the ruling you want, keep trying and appealing and bringing case after case until you get the ruling you want. It’s the MAGAt way.

      (Also profitable for lawyers…)

      🤦‍♀️ 🙄 🤡 🖕 💩

  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43·
    9 days ago

    And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

    Matthew 6:5-6

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      8 days ago

      IKR? I cannot tell you how many xtians get butthurt when I tell them that “the” bible that they pretend to looooove so very much tells them to keep their religion in the closet. Literally.

  • BassTurd@lemmy.world
    81·
    8 days ago

    I’m calling on all Texas children everywhere to vandalize these commandments at every opportunity. Maybe you can’t or shouldn’t march during tense situations on the streets, but you can protest in the class room. Walkouts, sit ins, general malfeasance… Let’s see what this younger generation has.

  • msprout@lemmy.world
    5·
    8 days ago

    looks at American media, seeing guns, violence, and killing glorified as a wonderful and direct means of solving problems

    Hmm. Are we sure these are the correct Ten Commandments? There’s not even anything in here about how seeing a woman’s boob on television is a mortal sin.