Texas Blatantly Violates the First Amendment’s Ban on Establishment of Religion

Texas has approved a Christian proselytizing program as an available part of the curriculum for any state school district that chooses it.

This not only insulting and improper, but also unconstitutional.

The First and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit any government from “…respecting an Establishment of religion.”

The Texas plan would allow school districts to mandate that all children between kindergarten and fifth grade be taught directly from the Christian Bible, presented as a “lesson,” another way of saying it is being presented as truth.

The law does permit schools to teach the Christian Bible and any religions scripture in a neutral manner, teaching history and culture, and not advancing any one faith. If that were the case in Texas, it would be Constitutional. That’s not what the proponents want or care about. They are all about proselytizing. It’s preaching, not teaching, as one opponent remarked.

Why must families who are Jewish, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Jain, Wiccan, Druid, atheist and agnostic, even Satanist, have another faith’s doctrines forced down their children’s throats?

Even if a state were allowed to promote and proselytize for one faith, why would they want to…