Texas Bible Bill Goes to Austin
The state House Public Education Committee met last night to consider Rep. Chisum’s bill mandating statewide elective Bible courses in Texas public schools.
I wasn’t able to make the meeting to liveblog it, but, fortunately, Off the Kuff had the same idea.
A FOX News report also gives a decent amount of space to the opposing side of the issue. Though I really think it should note some of the more egregious errors the Texas Freedom Network’s study found. And maybe the fact that Elizabeth Ridenour, the current publisher of the worst curriculum available and who was previously a real estate agent and paralegal, isn’t exactly a Biblical scholar.
Back in 1999, Alabama had this same problem when the fundamentalist Aesopians tried to insert their literal interpretation of the fox-grape parable into the state’s school-lunch program.
4. April, 2007 at 16:31
[…] Does Sen. Patrick live in the same nation I do? Same state? Same universe!? Has he not read about the Bible bills heard last night in the House. Does he not know that there are church groups that meet on public (school) property every day? And churches on the weekends? Has he not heard about the town with so many non-taxable church properties on the rolls that it’s going bankrupt? That is to say, does he not see that there are a billion times more churches in Austin, in Texas, in the United States than synagogues or temples or mosques. What does he have to worry about? And why does he have to be such a douche? No one intends to persecute you. Stop being such a self-centered masochist. […]
8. April, 2007 at 00:05
Let him go on with his pandering, he’ll
burn in hell soon enough.