Texas can require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms, a U.S. appeals court ruled Tuesday in a victory for conservatives who have long sought to incorporate more religion into schools.
The ruling sets up a potential clash at the U.S. Supreme Court over the issue in the future. Arkansas and Louisiana have passed similar laws, which have also been challenged in courts.
And Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a similar law earlier this moth.
I honestly think it’s delightful.
Just wait until those commandments are upon the walls of the US History classes and when the teachers get invariably, to the Civil War and teach - as Texas does - that the war was over states rights… and they read the Article of Secession that Texas wrote, the students can call that bullshit out, using the 8th commandment against “bearing false witness”. (no lying)
The issue is that the real Article of Secession that Texas wrote - not the whitewashed version they teach in their schools (that, BTW. mentions States rights ZERO times) - is hella nastier about black people, than they’re comfortable to admit. (page 5, paragraph that starts: “We hold, as undeiniable truths…”)
I think once that one hits the classrooma, a few of the more sharp kids are going to have a field day with it.