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The Texas State Board of Education approved a preliminary vote for a new optional curriculum integrating Bible-based lessons into elementary school reading and language arts, sparking controversy.

Serving 2.3 million K-5 students, the curriculum introduces Christian themes like the Sermon on the Mount and da Vinci’s Last Supper, but critics say it lacks balance and could violate the First Amendment.

Supporters argue it reflects America’s Christian cultural roots, while opponents, including parents and educators, warn it may blur lines between education and evangelism.

A final vote is expected soon, with potential nationwide implications.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago

Then I say the Qur'an needs to be taught there also. After all equal is equal.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago

ᏯᏩᏔᏲᎯ ᏂᎦᏛᏁᎯ, ᏂᎦᏓᎦᎸᎢᏍᎬ, ᎡᏆᏓᏆᏍᎩ ᏓᏳᏟᎶᏍᏙᏗ, ᏂᎦᏓᏆᏂᏍᎩ, ᏂᎦᏓᏆᏟᏍᏙᏗᏍᎬ ᏧᏩᏘᏂᏙᏗᏍᎬ.

Based on tradition, this Cherokee prayer should be posted in schools. It's only right to follow thousands of years of tradition.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

What a shithole state.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

I looked through a few of the materials. Just like Florida's slavery materials from a year ago, it uses dark patterns and weasel words to make it seem like it's no big deal. There's shit like, "The Christian Bible claims a man named Jesus was born in a manager because there was no room in the inn and when he grew up his followers viewed him as the messiah, and eventually the entire Roman Empire became Christian."

There's also a pointlessly long description (unless you know what the real point is) of how the Apostle Paul used the Roman road network, first to persecute Christians than after something (wink wink) happened, to spread Christianity.

It's gross.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

/me eagerly raises hand

"Ooooh oooh! Mrs. So-and-so! Tell us more child appropriate passages like Ezekiel 23:20! It says, 'There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.'"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don’t support vandalizing books or moving books around in bookstores, but I’ve absolutely put free bookmarks on that page in the Vegitales bibles at Books-a-Million.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My goodness. You're going to break the children! It's not their fault that the adults are all idiots! Haha!

[–] WingedObsidian 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Look forward to what the satanist will do to challenge this. Equal is equal in logic (but that concept may be far removed from certain minds)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

It won't matter in Texas

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

That's so fucked up. I can totally believe it's happening in Texas.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Christian Taliban carving out a stronghold in Texas.

The state is so fucking corrupt and simultaneously incompetent. These neophyte Christian soldiers are going to grow up thinking all of America is like Texas because they'll never go anywhere else.

As with Florida, the kids will suffer most as their futures are conscripted to a gross cabal of two-faced men and the women who enable them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Hold the horizontal wall across the US now.