On X, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick directly called out Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan for killing the bill "by letting it languish in committee for a month."
  • Telorand
    6•5 months ago

    “Texas WOULD have been and SHOULD have been the first state in the nation to put the 10 Commandments back in our schools,” Patrick said in a post on X. “But, SPEAKER Dade Phelan killed the bill by letting it languish in committee for a month assuring it would never have time for a vote on the floor.”

    Yeah, because there’s no way it’s constitutional; it would be a monumental waste of everyone’s time to even entertain such a bill. The Louisiana bill is likely going to be tossed out in court, too, unless their goal is (and my hypothesis is that it is) to try to get before SCOTUS and dishonestly argue that the “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion…” doesn’t apply to State legislatures—which is a state vs federal power inversion I don’t think even the current SCOTUS would be willing to entertain.

    Conservative faith-based bills DON’T HAVE A PRAYER UNDER SPEAKER DADE PHELAN. Besides Dade Phelan killing the Ten Commandments bill last session, Dade Phelan also killed Senate Bill 1396 by Sen. Middleton, which would have allowed school boards to vote to put prayer back in…

    Yeah, because you see, there’s still that pesky First Amendment. I hope you fall on a cactus, you disingenuous ghoul. I’m so fucking tired of the political theatre from Abbott and his cronies.

  • @Neps@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    3•5 months ago

    Yea here in texas we strive at being at the forefront of pushing conservitive christian nationalistic ideals. Get me out.

  • @rootA
    1•5 months ago

    I don’t understand how people don’t see this for what it is. It’s a political response to drag queen story time and spicy books at the school library.

    Who knows where it will end, I’d prefer it if everyone stopped using children to further their agenda.

    • @VoteNixon2016@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1•5 months ago

      Libraries:

      • Voluntary attendance

      • No required reading lists

      • Religious texts from most faiths, and books about those religions

      Schools:

      • Penalties for both parents and students for attendance issues

      • State-mandated curriculums

      • Literally just ten rules from the Old Testament

      It’s not a political response to anything, it’s a fear-based, lizard-brain reaction to it being broadly socially acceptable for queer people to exist. Decades of hate- and fearmongering, indoctrination, and tribalism caused this, not the mere existence of queer people in public.