Down Your Throat!

Whether you are a Christian or not. They talk about us being in their face but what about cramming religion down your throat and not just any religion but only Christian religion.

Bible-Based Lessons for Public Schools Get Final Approval in Texas

The state’s board of education narrowly voted to allow schools to start using the reading and language arts curriculum next fall if they choose.

New York Times

By Troy Closson

November 22, 2024

Texas education officials on Friday approved a new elementary school curriculum that draws from the Bible, the final step of a contentious effort to expand religious instruction in the state.

The reading and language arts curriculum, which will be optional for schools, could serve as a model for conservative Christian leaders in other states. Its approval came as Oklahoma’s superintendent seeks to compel all educators to teach from the Bible, and as Louisiana fights in courts to require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms.

Starting in August, the new Texas curriculum, for kindergarten through fifth grade, will be available to districts. The state serves more than two million elementary students in its public schools.

The curriculum incorporates into English lessons stories from the Bible such as Jesus and his Sermon on the Mount, the parable of the Prodigal Son and the Old Testament tale of Esther.

What about Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, and non-religious people?

Texas is not alone, all the recent rush to make little Christians out of Omar or Ismael? Or out of Aadesh and Bahula?

Oklahoma superintendent spars with CNN host over Bibles in schools: Liberals 'don't have to like it'

Ryan Walters currently faces a lawsuit over his mandate for public schools to incorporate the Bible

Fox News

By Lindsay Kornick 

November 18, 2024

Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters got into a heated back-and-forth with CNN host Pamela Brown over public schools using the Bible in lessons.

The "CNN Newsroom" host opened her segment with Walters asking him about the backlash over his mandate to incorporate the Bible and the Ten Commandments into public schools, amid an ongoing lawsuit against it.

"I have continued to hear the gaslighting from the left, frankly, even from this network, pushing lies about what's going on across America," Walters said. "President Trump has a clear mandate. He wants prayer back in school. He wants radical leftism out of the classroom, wants our kids to be patriotic, wants parents back in charge with school choice. We're enacting upon that agenda here in Oklahoma. That's what our parents want. Every county in Oklahoma voted for President Trump. His agenda is crystal clear, and we're going to enact it in the state of Oklahoma."

I’m more Christian than you! See I crammed Trump’s Bible… oh wait! They wouldn’t let me buy Trump’s Bible so we have to use another Bible!

Indoctrination in Idaho public schools? Christian nationalist group says, ‘bring it on’

Idaho Statesman
Opinion BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD UPDATED

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Talk about indoctrination in public schools. Idaho’s resident Christian nationalist organization, the Idaho Family Policy Center, is circulating a petition to “call upon the Idaho State Legislature to pass legislation so that daily Bible readings — without instruction or comment, and with appropriate conscience protections — will once again take place in every state-funded public school.” To justify its bill, the Idaho Family Policy Center quotes William H. Clagett, R-Shoshone, president of the Idaho Constitutional Convention, as saying, “[T]o exclude the children of the state from access to this great reservoir of moral principles and political maxims of daily duty [found in Scripture would do] a great injustice to the state at large.”

Now wait until you see their twisted logic to justify the Bible in schools...

The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution says, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” You no doubt will hear the inane argument, “See, the Constitution doesn’t say anything about a state legislature requiring the reading of the Bible in school.” Poppycock. Why did the framers of the U.S. Constitution add that amendment, the very first words of the very first amendment, no less? They didn’t want the government telling its citizens what religion to follow. They wanted every citizen to have the freedom of their own religious convictions without government interference.

And the Supreme Court will probably back them up! They will probably find some technicality to weasel out from under the US Constitution like they did the state of Washington, NPR reported back then…

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sided with a high school football coach who claimed the right to pray on the 50-yard line after each game, joined by those players who wanted to participate. The 6-to-3 decision was the latest example of the court's conservative supermajority requiring more accommodation for religion in public schools and less separation between church and state.

They have said over and over, that they want to make us a Christian Nation! And they are doing it by cramming religion down our throats… talk about “Grooming!”