How some Texas teachers are fighting the Ten Commandments law in classrooms:
As public schools begin hanging posters of the religious doctrine in classrooms, some teachers are finding creative alternatives to sidestep or dodge the legislation.
A Ten Commandments poster that hangs in one suburban Dallas teacher’s classroom is surrounded by hot-pink placards featuring tenets from Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam.
A substitute teacher north of Houston is sending her twin daughters to school wearing First Amendment buttons and offering the same pins to other children in their neighborhood.
Meanwhile, a teacher in southeast Texas said she’s playing a “risky game” after deciding she won’t display the Ten Commandments in her classroom at all. But if she must, she said, she will hang it upside down.
These quiet acts of defiance are unfolding as a new Republican-crafted state law — known as Senate Bill 10 — takes effect this month requiring Texas public elementary and secondary schools to hang the Ten Commandments in every classroom. A school district “must accept any offer of a privately donated poster,” otherwise it “may, but is not required to, purchase posters” using district funds, the law states.
It’s unclear how many districts have complied with the law since the start of the school year.
In addition, a handful of school districts where parents and faith leaders have filed legal challenges remain exempt from the mandate as federal litigation plays out. The plaintiffs contend that forcing the Ten Commandments into public schools is an unconstitutional violation of the separation of church and state.
It’s unclear how many districts have complied with the law since the start of the school year.
In addition, a handful of school districts where parents and faith leaders have filed legal challenges remain exempt from the mandate as federal litigation plays out. The plaintiffs contend that forcing the Ten Commandments into public schools is an unconstitutional violation of the separation of church and state.
And isn’t there legislation in Texas to make prayer and Bible reading mandatory?
There are countless evil passages in the Bible and Jesus said to do your praying in private, in a closet, not in public. So a clever teacher could have loads of fun complying with the law by simply reading all of the evil passages.
Not if super Christian James Talarico has a say. He's fought them back in a big way. And the way he does it is brilliant. In essence, "No real Christian would want this."
45 yeaes ago I signed a loyalty oath to Israel in Texas in order to be allowed to practice teach phys ed to kindergarten kids. All teachers signed it or didn't work in Texas! Time passes. It's not like you didn't already know about the empire of lies.
"you know the old ones were good but we've made them beautiful now...no shame, no guilt...it's the perfect rules now - and the best part is - it only applies to other people"
@Pretzel GAWD knows that Demented Donnie and every single member of his misadministration has broken each and every Commandment innumerable times and none of them could actually recite them.
Hell , tRUMP doesn’t even know the first verse of the National Anthem…
@Diotrephes …I could see some bright 5th grader raising his/her hand and asking their teacher “Why is our President breaking all of these Commandments?”
