Texas AG Ken Paxton encourages students to recite Lord’s Prayer in latest test of church-state separation

[Zincwarrior]

Ken 'running for US Senate' Paxton wants public school students to voluntarily sing the Lord's Prayer in school. Um...ok. Thats certainly different, especially since his wife is divorcing him for "unBiblical" behavior. Thoughts?

Texas AG Ken Paxton encourages students to recite Lord’s Prayer in latest test of church-state separation - The Texas Tribune

The endorsement comes as Texas elected officials push for more Christianity in public life and as Paxton’s office fights a legal challenge to religion in education.

www.texastribune.org

With a new Texas law in effect allowing time for prayer and reading religious texts in public schools, Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday encouraged students to practice the Lord’s Prayer as relayed in the King James Version of the Bible, marking the latest instance of a Texas public official endorsing Christianity over other faiths.

The U.S. Constitution prohibits states from promoting one religion over another, but in a news release asking Texas schools to comply with Senate Bill 11, Paxton called on schoolchildren to consider utilizing prayer time to engage with the Lord’s Prayer “as taught by Jesus Christ.”

“In Texas classrooms, we want the Word of God opened, the Ten Commandments displayed, and prayers lifted up,” Paxton wrote. “Twisted, radical liberals want to erase Truth, dismantle the solid foundation that America’s success and strength were built upon, and erode the moral fabric of our society. Our nation was founded on the rock of Biblical Truth, and I will not stand by while the far-left attempts to push our country into the sinking sand.”

The attorney general’s endorsement of a Christian prayer in Texas schools comes as he seeks to pick up more conservative support in an effort to unseat U.S. Sen. John Cornyn. It also went out just weeks after a federal judge found a state law requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms unconstitutional.


The attorney general’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Texas Tribune on whether Paxton’s messaging violates the Constitution or why Paxton found it appropriate to use state resources to endorse a particular religion.

The Ten Commandments law and SB 11, a law allowing school boards to require their campuses to provide students and staff time to pray and read religious texts every day, were part of a slate of bills during this year’s regular legislative session seeking to infuse more religion into public education and testing the legal limits of church-state separation.

The state also passed a law allowing families to pay for their children’s private, religious education using taxpayer dollars. Before that, the state approved an optional elementary school curriculum filled with lessons on the Bible and Christianity.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Ken 'running for US Senate' Paxton wants public school students to voluntarily sing the Lord's Prayer in school. Um...ok. Thats certainly different, especially since his wife is divorcing him for "unBiblical" behavior. Thoughts?

Texas AG Ken Paxton encourages students to recite Lord’s Prayer in latest test of church-state separation - The Texas Tribune

The endorsement comes as Texas elected officials push for more Christianity in public life and as Paxton’s office fights a legal challenge to religion in education.

www.texastribune.org

More pandering to the Christo-fascist right.

 

[Auld Phart]

Ken 'running for US Senate' Paxton wants public school students to voluntarily sing the Lord's Prayer in school. Um...ok. Thats certainly different, especially since his wife is divorcing him for "unBiblical" behavior. Thoughts?

Texas AG Ken Paxton encourages students to recite Lord’s Prayer in latest test of church-state separation - The Texas Tribune

The endorsement comes as Texas elected officials push for more Christianity in public life and as Paxton’s office fights a legal challenge to religion in education.

www.texastribune.org

Ken 'running for US Senate' Paxton wants public school students to voluntarily sing the Lord's Prayer in school.

voluntarily?

how is that a Separation of Church and State issue?

 

[marvin martian]

voluntarily?

how is that a Separation of Church and State issue?

It's not, but Euro cucks like Zincwarrior don't understand how things work in America.

 

[Zincwarrior]

More pandering to the Christo-fascist right.

I would have been tempted to want time to sing Janis Joplin's version.

 

[Zincwarrior]

voluntarily?

how is that a Separation of Church and State issue?

I didn't, other than him calling for them to say a specific Christian prayer.

 

[initforme]

Let all religions sing theirs at the same time as well.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

It's not, but Euro cucks like Zincwarrior don't understand how things work in America.

I think you best check your court rulings on this issue. I don't think it will withstand court interpretation of establishment.
Who is leading this singing? I have never heard the Lord's Prayer being sung that I recall.

 

[marvin martian]

I think you best check your court rulings on this issue. I don't think it will withstand court interpretation of establishment.
Who is leading this singing? I have never heard the Lord's Prayer being sung that I recall.

This will never go to any court because it isn't a law or even a rule or a policy. It was a suggestion.

Like I said, Euro cucks like Zincwarrior don't understand how these things work in the US.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

This will never go to any court because it isn't a law or even a rule or a policy. It was a suggestion.

Like I said, Euro cucks like Zincwarrior don't understand how these things work in the US.

If they put it in writing, it is no longer a suggestion.

 

[Moonglow]

Ken 'running for US Senate' Paxton wants public school students to voluntarily sing the Lord's Prayer in school. Um...ok. Thats certainly different, especially since his wife is divorcing him for "unBiblical" behavior. Thoughts?

Texas AG Ken Paxton encourages students to recite Lord’s Prayer in latest test of church-state separation - The Texas Tribune

The endorsement comes as Texas elected officials push for more Christianity in public life and as Paxton’s office fights a legal challenge to religion in education.

www.texastribune.org

 

[Moonglow]

This will never go to any court because it isn't a law or even a rule or a policy. It was a suggestion.

Like I said, Euro cucks like Zincwarrior don't understand how these things work in the US.

He has an accent of a Texan..You all.

 

[Zebra]

I would have been tempted to want time to sing Janis Joplin's version.

Mercedes Benz is fine!

 

[Polishprince]

The Lord's Prayer is a non-offensive, non-sectarian prayer to Almighty God, you'd really have to be a radical atheist to object to it.

The prayer is even recited at AA meetings, which are open to all

 

[Rambunctious]

Texas AG Ken Paxton encourages students to recite Lord’s Prayer in latest test of church-state separation​

Oh the horror!!!!

 

[initforme]

Texas AG Ken Paxton encourages students to recite Lord’s Prayer in latest test of church-state separation​

Oh the horror!!!!

As a christian i dont see the need for prayer in schools. Ever.

 

[Polishprince]

As a christian i dont see the need for prayer in schools. Ever.

I went to Christian schools and we prayed every day. Once a month, they marched us to mass.

Nothing wrong with teaching kids about Almighty God

 

[Rambunctious]

As a christian i dont see the need for prayer in schools. Ever.

What is the need to not have some kind of a moral education and the theory of an afterlife.... if people grow up thinking this is all there is they grow up thinking there are no lasting consequences....

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Ken 'running for US Senate' Paxton wants public school students to voluntarily sing the Lord's Prayer in school. Um...ok. Thats certainly different, especially since his wife is divorcing him for "unBiblical" behavior. Thoughts?

Texas AG Ken Paxton encourages students to recite Lord’s Prayer in latest test of church-state separation - The Texas Tribune

The endorsement comes as Texas elected officials push for more Christianity in public life and as Paxton’s office fights a legal challenge to religion in education.

www.texastribune.org

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SFW







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[initforme]

What is the need to not have some kind of a moral education and the theory of an afterlife.... if people grow up thinking this is all there is they grow up thinking there are no lasting consequences....

This is not a theocracy driven by one religion.