"I think this would be a good healthy step for Texas to bring back this tradition of recognizing America’s religious heritage," said Sen. Phil King, R, who sponsored the bill.
The upper chamber also on Thursday passed a bill empowering school districts to require that public schools provide time for students to pray or read a religious text.
The first amendment literally says Congress shall not create laws respecting any religion.
Exactly. So there should be no law saying anything about religion.
Laws preventing religious display are unconstitutional. It is not constitutional to prevent the display of the 10 commandments.
Laws that enforce government actions in displaying and teaching religious doctrine are unconstitutional, especially if it's in the form of a publicly funded institution.
Would you want state sanctioned Satanism or Islam being taught in school?
No, it says it shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. That is, it can't openly support a specific Church or group. It doesn't mean it can't have religious values.
That's a bit of a stretch. An establishment could mean a specific church denomination, or it could mean an established religion all together.
By your logic, schools should be able to preach Satanic and Islamic principles as long as it doesn't dip its toes into a specific denomination of either.
Schools should answer to the people they serve. So if the people they serve want Islamic or Satanic principles preached, then they should be able to, yes. It's our job to ensure that doesn't happen by ensuring our communities don't steer in the wrong direction that would allow that (which we are utterly failing at now, and schools are the least of our concerns with the way society is heading).