Electives are fine. There ought to not be any problem with this approach. It marks the free choice of a student to elect an extra class. It also marks a tolerance (something the left boasts about) that should be in place for Christianity. And yes… if they want an elective on the Q-ran… fine. Let the information live or die in the marketplace of ideas.
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas schools would be able to offer elective courses on the Bible under legislation tentatively adopted Tuesday in the House.
The measure, which was approved by a voice vote, was a watered-down version of Republican Rep. Warren Chisum’s original proposal. That plan would have required Bible courses to be taught as an elective in all Texas high schools rather than making it optional.
The House is expected to give final approval to the measure Wednesday. It then moves to the Senate for consideration.
The class would focus on the history and literature of the Bible, rather than proselytizing, Chisum said.
What’s reaction from the left?
“Public schools are not Sunday schools, and most people get nervous when government gets too involved in religion,” Miller said. “The safeguards in this bill protect the right of families and clergy, not the government, to tell our schoolchildren what to believe about the Bible.”
Yes. I expect this but what about Jefferson knowing that the Government printed Bibles knowing how beneficial the book can be for a nation.
Thomas Jefferson, author of the “wall of separation” that is revered as gospel by secularists and civil libertarians who want to purge Christianity from the public square, was firmly in favor of prohibiting public religious expression.
Right?
Hardly. But that’s the message many in the so-called mainstream are preaching today.
I wonder how many Americans are familiar with the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom? Authored by Thomas Jefferson, it appears on the wall of the Jefferson Memorial.
Here’s an excerpt: “Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens . . . are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion.
It is the understanding the the Almighty God is the one who gave us freedom and that understanding is lost when we remove our freedom’s architect. It was so important to the founders in the Revolution that they printed the Bible.
Prior to the American Revolution, the only English Bibles in the colonies were imported either from Europe or England. Publication of the Bible was regulated by the British government, and required a special license. Robert Aitken’s Bible was the first known English-language Bible to be printed in America, and also the only Bible to receive Congressional approval. Aitken’s Bible, sometimes referred to as “The Bible of the Revolution,” is one of the rarest books in the world, with few copies still in existence today.
I would love to see a debate with today’s liberal left and the founding fathers. I know who would win.
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