Public colleges must show Ten Commandments beneath invoice handed by Texas Senate

The Senate additionally handed a invoice that will set prayer and Bible studying instances in the course of the faculty day.

Public colleges in Texas must prominently show the Ten Commandments in each classroom beginning subsequent faculty 12 months beneath a invoice the Texas Senate authorised Thursday.

Senate Invoice 1515 by Sen. Phil King, R-Weatherford, now heads to the Home for consideration.

That is the most recent try from Texas Republicans to inject faith into public colleges. In 2021, state Sen. Bryan Hughes, a Mineola Republican, authored a invoice that grew to become regulation requiring colleges to show donated “In God We Belief” indicators.

King mentioned throughout a committee listening to earlier this month that the Ten Commandments are a part of American heritage and it’s time to carry them again into the classroom. He mentioned the U.S. Supreme Court docket cleared the way in which for his invoice after it sided with Joe Kennedy, a highschool soccer coach in Washington state who was fired for praying at soccer video games. The court docket dominated that was praying as a personal citizen, not as an worker of the district.

“[The bill] will remind college students all throughout Texas of the significance of the elemental basis of America,” King mentioned throughout that listening to.

The Senate additionally gave remaining passage to Senate Invoice 1396, authored by Sen. Mayes Middleton, R-Galveston, which might permit public and constitution colleges to undertake a coverage requiring each campus to put aside a time for college students and workers to learn the Bible or different non secular texts and to wish.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick mentioned in an announcement that each payments are wins for non secular freedom in Texas.

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