“References to the ‘laws of nature and nature’s God’ “
Pretty subversive...
Facts is facts.
Amen!
I read that this morning...
Some good news to wake up to!
Take a look at what the Leftists wanted included and excluded. Makes me happy to watch the tape of one Hispanic activist walk-out in a huff because the board refused to include in American History several score of historic nobodies with Hispanic names. The simple fact is that 90% of the History of the United States was created by white men, for better or worse.
Now all they have to do is to start teaching that this nation holds these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and things might get on the right track.
Most excellent. This hardly runs afoul of the Establishment Clause, by the way. (IMHO)
Great news. I wonder if the liberals gave up after they were outed yesterday, or whether they were just outnumbered on the board. In any case, a great outcome.
My argument to leftists has always been, History is history. It doesn’t matter if you approve of it or not, but you can’t just go back and change the past to suit yourself.
(Well, they can, but they don’t like people pointing it out when they do.)
“They also struck down an amendment calling for students to examine the reasons why the nation’s founders barred the government from promoting any religion above another.”
Because many came to practice a religion that was not a state religion in there home country. Sevral colonies wished to establish state religions.
Next subject please.
Any government powerful enough to include references to "nature's God" in the government school textbooks is powerful enough to **remove** all references to God from the textbooks.
Fundamentally, this is just one more example among thousands for why government schools can NEVER be religiously, politically, or culturally neutral. The school board has a binary choice to make: include or exclude the references to God. Neither is religiously neutral. Both establish a specific worldview that undermines the family values of many children.
This is one more reason among **thousands** why government schools must be abolished and we, as a nation, must more toward complete privatization of schooling.
**ALL** government schools are a freedom of conscience and First Amendment abomination!
Simply put, TEXAS ROCKS!
(though the jury is still out, until April, on Frito pie)
Religion was once deemed to be a function of the public school system. The Northwest Ordinance, in Article III that Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged…
We are not talking about establishing a Theocracy like Iran, were just saying historically our country used to put it’s faith in God and not Earth worship - which is a religion too.. So is atheism. The Bible was taught in schools for 200 years. We have too many religions in America today to do this now, but I’d rather the kids know that their rights as individuals come from God and not from Obama, Pelosi, or Al Gore.
Never mind me, I’m just going to pull up a chair and grin for a while.
[God Blessed Texas, no?]