As the Texas State Board of Education prepared to vote last month on whether to allow public school districts to opt in to a new elementary school curriculum featuring Bible-based lessons, board member Staci Childs asked her pastor for prayer.
“I’d think that learning some things about the Bible on a historical account is not necessarily bad. But if I’m saying less Christianity, what kind of Christian am I?” Childs said last week. “This was conflicting for me.”
The material won narrow approval in a Republican-led 8-7 vote, although three Republican members joined the four Democrats on the board, including Childs, in opposition.
“In the law, there is a clear separation of church and state,” Childs, an attorney who represents the Houston area on the board, said of her decision.
If the constitutionality of mixing religious doctrine with public school education had seemed to be largely decided, with U.S. Supreme Court rulings in the 1960s and ’80s limiting how religious activity and teachings can be enforced, a wave of new laws and mandates in […]
There is absolutely no debate about the Amendment that clearly states that there must be a separation of church and state. None! But what is most worrisome is a SCOTUS that votes politically and religiously (given the fact that 4 justices are Catholic) . This is so anti-Constitutional and I’m at a loss of what can be done. Impeachment won’t work because the US Senate and House are dominated by Republicans who go along with this—-even though it is clearly against the Constitution!! So much will happen in the next four years until Americans wake up and realize that their Constitution rights and laws are not be followed. The remedy: vote these anti-Constitutional religious and political people are removed from their positions!