No, they aren’t forcing you to take a Bible class, but it is required to be in ALL high schools. Basically take Britain’s compulsory evolution education and flip it inside out.

Attorney General Greg Abbott told the Associated Press this bill does not require the schools to make the course mandatory, but they do have to make it an elective. It is “mandating high schools to offer history and literacy courses on the Old and New Testaments.”

That sounds fair. Give interested students a chance to learn about a religion of their choice. Nothing wrong with that. Except, what is happening in Texas is a little different. The only option being mandated is the Bible.

The bill wanted to educate the Bible’s impact in history and literacy, but what about other religious scripts?“These courses are often more about the religious beliefs of the teachers rather than true academic studies of the importance of the Bible in history and literature,” said Kathy Miller, director of Texas Freedom Network, to Fox News.

Ahh see there in lies the problem. This is nothing more than a direct promotion of Christianity. Who the hell are you to decide your faith is right? Only true Christians are concerned with the history and academics, the other faiths just want to preach personal views. What? This would be screwing over a sizeable amount of the population. About 15% actually.

According to a 2007 study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, of the 35,556 adults surveyed for the “U.S. Religious Landscape Survey,” 15.5 percent of the Texas population practices a religion other than Christianity or Catholicism. This includes Judaism, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu and those unaffiliated.

I imagine this will be subject to some litigation and eventually be repealed. I am okay with religious classes in schools, but atleast be fair about it. Maybe all these asshats should analyze our Constitution for a change. Would save us all time and money..

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