# Even the stupid is bigger in Texas
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [January 29, 2015, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285 "2015-01-29T23:31:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2015, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/1 "2015-01-29T23:31:34Z")
[Lest anyone think that your lawmaker actually understands civil rights or even the Constitution, peruse this news](http://news.yahoo.com/molly-white-texas-muslim-capitol-day-facebook-islamaphobia-191253151.html?category=offensive).
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> A newly elected Texas state lawmaker is under fire for a divisive Facebook post asking Muslim visitors attending an event at the state capitol in Austin to pledge allegiance to the United States.
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> The event, Texas Muslim Capitol Day, was organized by the Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
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> “Today is Texas Muslim Capital [sic] Day in Austin,” Molly White, a House Republican, wrote on her Facebook page Thursday. “The House is in recess until Monday. Most Members including myself are back in District. I did leave an Israeli flag on the reception desk in my office with instructions to staff to ask representatives from the Muslim community to renounce Islamic terrorist groups and publicly announce allegiance to America and our laws. We will see how long they stay in my office.”
More from the bigot in question at the link.
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### Author:  [@BOOM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BOOM)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2015, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/2 "2015-01-29T23:36:15Z")
That’s so many levels of confused she may have been watching Homeland.
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2015, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/3 "2015-01-29T23:40:23Z")
[Quote=The Hon. Rep White]
“Remember, in the Koran, it is ok to lie for the purpose of advancing Islam,” she wrote. “Texans must never allow fringe groups of people to come here so that they can advance their own culture instead of becoming an American and assimilating into the American way of life. That, I can assure is not the intent of most Muslims who move to America.”
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So, why is she demanding they swear allegiance to the US? They’d just be lying anyway, by her logic.
I wonder what she thinks the intent is of muslims who were actually born here.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2015, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/4 "2015-01-29T23:41:17Z")
Bet she goes to church. Bet she prays for our heroes. Because the only thing God loves more than a football team is an army.
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### Author:  [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2015, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/5 "2015-01-29T23:43:40Z")
Maybe they should start with soft-on-secessionism politicians like Rick Perry.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2015, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/6 "2015-01-29T23:44:01Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#):
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> …And lest we forget, the one who are actually born here.
My congressgit, the Hon. Keith Ellison (D-MN), the Lutheran Muslim from Lake Wobegon.
(I may have mentioned this already, I am as reticent as a vegan on this subject…)
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2015, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/7 "2015-01-29T23:46:25Z")
Sorry, 'Luc, didn’t mean to change your quote out from under you.
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### Author:  [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2015, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/8 "2015-01-29T23:49:40Z")
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> “I did leave an Israeli flag on the reception desk in my office…”
Huh? Does she think it will have a similar effect to that of a crucifix on vampires?
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### Author:  [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2015, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/9 "2015-01-29T23:51:01Z")
> [@Molly White](#):
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> We will see how long they stay in my office.
It generally takes me about 30 seconds to empty my bladder. Seem reasonable?
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2015, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/10 "2015-01-30T00:01:39Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#):
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> Sorry, 'Luc, didn’t mean to change your quote out from under you.
No prob, Bob. Freak freely.
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2015, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/11 "2015-01-30T00:25:13Z")
> [@elucidator](#):
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> My congressgit, the Hon. Keith Ellison (D-MN), the Lutheran Muslim from Lake Wobegon.
I thought he was a Catholic Muslim. Which, on reflection, would make him ELCA.\*
> [@Monty's idiot](#):
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> I did leave an Israeli flag on the reception desk in my office with instructions to staff to ask representatives from the Muslim community to renounce Islamic terrorist groups and publicly announce allegiance to America and our laws.
I’m confused. If they are pledging allegiance to America, what does Israel have to do with it? Is Molly White an Israeli secret agent, like John Boehner?
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- The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the hippie Lutherans, who are theologically closer to Muslims than Mormons.
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### Author:  [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2015, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/12 "2015-01-30T00:31:25Z")
> [@elucidator](#):
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> Bet she goes to church. Bet she prays for our heroes. Because the only thing God loves more than a football team is an army.
Yes, but it’s not God, it’s _Jesus._
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### Author:  [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2015, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/13 "2015-01-30T00:31:37Z")
> [@Battle\_Pope](#):
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> Huh? Does she think it will have a similar effect to that of a crucifix on vampires?
I always thought from my reading here that pork was supposed to be the muslim Kryptonite. Couple strips of bacon formed into the sign of the Cross should have been sufficient.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2015, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/14 "2015-01-30T01:48:10Z")
She put a foreign flag on her desk and asked people to pledge to it to show their allegiance to the United States?
I have to admit that’s a special kind of stupid.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2015, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/15 "2015-01-30T01:53:24Z")
> [@](#):
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> Originally Posted by The Hon. Rep White
> “Texans must never allow fringe groups of people to come here so that they can advance their own culture instead of becoming an American and assimilating into the American way of life.”
But moving to a new country and refusing to assimilate was the fundamental principle on which Texas was founded.
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### Author:  [@Jungian\_Camisole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jungian_Camisole)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2015, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/16 "2015-01-30T02:12:03Z")
I’ve lived in Texas for over 30 years. Maybe I live in an area that really does have a diverse culture that is widely embraced. I don’t know. But I can tell you that people that live here think this is wildly offensive. The local newscasters could barely disguise how they felt about Ms. White. They were more than happy to report that repeated phone calls and emails were unanswered.
There are truly good people that live here. It’s too bad that the racist, xenophobic, and generally obnoxious shitbags\* get all of the press.
\*I’m looking at you, Ted and Louie.
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### Author:  [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2015, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/17 "2015-01-30T02:27:27Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> But moving to a new country and refusing to assimilate was the fundamental principle on which Texas was founded.
Well, that’s why it worries her. Since it already happened before and \*worked \*then…
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2015, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/18 "2015-01-30T02:33:46Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> She put a foreign flag on her desk and asked people to pledge to it to show their allegiance to the United States?
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> I have to admit that’s a special kind of stupid.
When you call someone stupid, you might want to check your own comments for factual errors.
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### Author:  [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2015, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/19 "2015-01-30T02:39:27Z")
Jewish people are not that uncommon in Texas. Quite a few in Waco, but mostly they are in Temple.
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2015, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/even-the-stupid-is-bigger-in-texas/711285/20 "2015-01-30T02:43:53Z")
I’m shocked that the have something called “Texas Muslim Capitol Day”. Not sure what it means, but it sounds, dare I say it… rather progressive!
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