The Texas Board of Education approved a new K–5 curriculum Friday permitting the instruction of the Bible in public schools.
The optional curriculum swap will offer school districts an additional $40 per pupil for using state-approved materials, which will add “Biblical and Christian lessons about Moses, the story of the Good Samaritan, the Golden Rule, readings from The Book of Genesis, and more,” reported ABC News.
Gee, I wonder if they’ll fall into this grift mentioned in the article.
Texas is the latest right-wing state to push Bibles into the classroom. Similar initiatives have swept schools in states such as Louisiana and Oklahoma, where Bibles and the Ten Commandments have become pillars of the state educational system. In Oklahoma, bid documents for tens of thousands of Bibles hinted that just one copy of the bestselling book of all time would do for the Sooner State’s students: Donald Trump’s $60-a-pop God Bless the U.S.A. Bible.
Did I say fall into? I meant fervently nosedive into.
We’re going to see a lot more of this kind of thing. The Dobbs decision encourages conservative states to pass laws in contradiction to precedent with the hope that the Supreme Court will overturn past rulings. In this case, they hope the Supremes will overturn Engel v. Vitale, which is the 1962 case in which they declared school-sponsored prayer in public schools to be unconstitutional.
I’m living in Oklahoma for the winter, and they passed the same law as Texas. Schools will be paid extra to allow praying and the teaching of the bible in classrooms, all the way down to kindergarten. I feel sorry for the kids who come from atheistic families, or any non-christian kids. Imagine being Muslim or Hindu and being taught from a bible. I don’t expect the Supreme Court to back up separation of church and state. Those days are long gone.
Gee, what happens when parents try to exercise their sacred parental rights and opt their children out of anything related to the Bible.
Well the Mormons use the King James Version too, even the KJV comes in different versions, with different comentaries. I gotta admit part of me kinda wants to see the kinds of intellectual hoops lawyers and judges are going to jump through to justify state promotion of Christianity over other religions, Protestantism over Catholicism (& Orthodoxy) and specific Protestant denominations over other Protestant denominations. The Devil’s in the details.
We are seeing the same douchebaggery in Idaho now except they want to have readings from the bible. And like you mention, the Idaho Statesman Editorial Board thinks it is so the Supreme Court has the chance to overturn longstanding precedent…in this case Abington School District v. Schempp which ruled that public schools cannot sponsor bible readings.
