"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.
Not constitutional....nice for some.
"Separation of church and state" is not a constitutional concept, despite what anyone, including courts say. It's just a bullshit interpretation.
The government should be allowed to be religious without violating the first amendment, they just cannot prevent you from being a different religion.
Moreover, people should vote with their religion in mind. If a person is truly religious, their religion guides them in every choice they make, so how could they possibly vote without their religion in mind? As such, if the population is predominantly one religion and therefore the majority votes with that religion's ideas in mind, how is it possible to have a government that is completely devoid of all religious principles?
If you believe that abortion is wrong, you vote that abortion should be illegal. It doesn't matter if the reason you believe abortion is wrong is religious or completely secular, it's still your opinion. If you recognize that your religion drives your morality, should you recuse yourself of voting on any issue that involves morality? Do you somehow ignore your own morality and try to vote based on some sense of secular morality which you don't personally agree with? It's impossible.
Religious populations lead to religious governments under democracy. To try to artificially prevent that is to undermine the principles of democracy.
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?