The Bible Will Save Us!!!

http://news8austin.com/content/your_...sp?ArID=181870

Bible classes bill in Legislature
4/3/2007 4:40 PM
By: Associated Press

A Texas House bill that faced a hearing Tuesday would require school districts to offer high school-level courses on the Old and New Testaments.

Rep. Warren Chisum, R-Pampa, filed HB 1287 to make Texas the first state to require public schools to teach elective bible classes.

Chisum says the measure would allow students to investigate links between the Bible and the U.S. system of laws. But critics say such courses tend to promote religious views that discriminate against various other faiths.

Chisum also filed HB 167 to exempt bibles and holy books from being seized by creditors to pay off a debt.

"As the State of Texas continues to face challenges with the effects of the continued war on terror, drug clashes on the border, and lack of equal healthcare and education, it is necessary for each individual of this State to maintain their sense of security through their perspective faith or religion," the bill analysis reads.

Another bill by Chisum also seeks parental approval before a student can take a human sexuality class.

Texas does need to be it's own nation... and we need to tow it out to sea.

[Aliantha]

Hmmm...religious education in school. Interesting. It is elective though, so I guess that means you can elect to ignore it as a subject. Don't people have a right to choose what they should be educated about in school?

Nope, not when it is indoctrination. Very different than a course that just states "this is what this religion believes".
This states, "this is right, good, and what you should believe".

[Aliantha]

Well according to the article, it's designed to help/teach students to learn the links between the bible and US laws. Maybe that's a good thing. Maybe it'll open up some eyes in ways that you don't seem to credit could happen.

Again, it's an elective subject. That means not all or even any students are forced to take the subject. That means students get to excercise their right to take or not take the class.

There are no links.

In Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli, an agreement signed between the United States and the Muslim region of North Africa in 1797 after negotiations concluded by George Washington (the document, which was approved by the Senate in accordance with Constitutional law, and then signed by John Adams), it states flatly, "The Government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion." signed by John Adams
"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!" John Adams

The cure for terrorism like is enough to make anyone see that this was drafted by a nut-job.
The separation of church and state is clear and should never be breached.
If someone wants to teach their kid religion they need to pay to send their kid to a religious school to have them indoctrinated with their fantasy.

[Aliantha]

In Australia kids can go to religious education during school hours once a week for about an hour. It's elective and kids don't have to go unless their parents say so.

Religion is a part of society. Why do you think it's so hard to separate the state from the church?