ODESSA - The school board in this West Texas town has voted unanimously to add an elective Bible class to its high school curriculum.
Hundreds of people, most of them supporters of the proposal, packed the board meeting Tuesday night. About 6,000 Odessa residents had signed a petition supporting the class.
Odessa isn't Dallas or Houston. It's a lot closer to a New Mexico town than to a Texas town. It's an icky, ugly, sandstormy town, much like Lubbock except smaller.
Plus, it has HUGE spiders all over it. (My grandparents lived in Odessa, and they had spiders on their porch the size of saucers.)