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Attorney General: State Mandates Bible Teaching in Texas Schools (pdf)
AUSTIN, Texas – Attorney General Greg Abbott decided today that Representative Warren Chisum’s bill (H.B. 1287) requires all Texas public schools to offer instruction on the Old and New Testaments of the Bible.
The 80th Texas Legislature passed into law Rep. Chisum’s bill that requires all Texas school districts to provide instruction in the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament) and New Testament.
Jonathan Saenz, director of legislative affairs at Free Market Foundation, was instrumental in helping to pass H.B. 1287, and said, “For too long Texas school districts have been threatened and oppressed by enemies of academic freedom, for simply daring to offer instruction on the Bible.”
At the request of the Attorney General, Liberty Legal Institute filed a brief which argued that H.B. 1287 mandates all Texas schools provide instruction on the Bible and that the course outlined in the law is a permissible way of accomplishing that mandate. Abbott’s statement agrees with Liberty Legal, saying that schools must include instruction on the Bible’s impact on literature and history.
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Indoctrination Texas Style
This move has nothing to do with teaching children anything at all and more to do with proselytizing by Christian zealots.
Enemies of academic freedom?
Enemies of academic freedom? Don't they mean proponenets of the separation of church and state?
I'm just glad I don't live in Texas. And I study the Bible because I want to!
Enemies of academic freedom?
No, they don't. If you do not support their alleged right to hector your children with fundamentalist Christian beliefs and teachings then you are, in their opinion, an enemy of academic freedom.