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Texas AG sued to keep a Bible quote in school. Now he’s troubled by Muslim prayers.
Posted on 3/19/17 at 7:33 pm
Posted on 3/19/17 at 7:33 pm
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Every day at lunch, a handful of teenagers in Frisco, Tex., would pop into room C112, face a whiteboard and kneel for one of their five daily prayers. It was just a spare classroom, used for everything from teachers’ grading to Buddhist meditation, school officials say. But Muslims at Liberty High seemed to like it. “Takes like five minutes, instead of having to leave school, get in a car and go to my parents,” junior Sarah Qureshi told the school news site early this month. “This is the seventh year we’ve been doing this, and we’ve never had one issue,” school principal Scott Warstler said. Last week, however, top state officials learned about the room — and suddenly Liberty High had a big issue indeed.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has often criticized what he calls anti-Christian discrimination in Texas schools. In 2015, Paxton joined 15 other states in opposing an atheist society’s lawsuit to stop school board officials from reading religious prayers before public meetings.
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Paxton attracted national attention last December when he waded into a dispute in Killeen, Tex., between a middle school principal and a nurse’s aide who put up a six-foot poster in the school with a quote from the classic animation special “A Charlie Brown Christmas” that read: “For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior which is Christ the Lord.” After the principal told the aide to take the poster down, Paxton wrote to the Killeen school district: “These concerns are not surprising in an age of frivolous litigation by anti-Christian interest groups … Rescind this unlawful policy.”
Posted on 3/19/17 at 7:35 pm to RedRifle
WILL SOMEONE THINK OF THE MUSLIM CHILDRENS?
Posted on 3/19/17 at 7:36 pm to RedRifle
Texas elected so many douche bags Statewide last Guber
Patrick
Paxton
Miller
Patrick
Paxton
Miller
Posted on 3/19/17 at 7:36 pm to RedRifle
So it was cool as long as it involved his religion.
Posted on 3/19/17 at 7:44 pm to RedRifle
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Texas AG sued to keep a Bible quote in school.
Did he win?
Posted on 3/19/17 at 7:44 pm to OweO
Freedom of Religion means Freedom of Christianity to a lot of people here in Texas.
Posted on 3/19/17 at 7:49 pm to RedRifle
How about all religions out of school?
Posted on 3/19/17 at 7:51 pm to OSqueal
Why do you want to persecute Christians?
Posted on 3/19/17 at 7:54 pm to OweO
Some religions are better than others.
Posted on 3/19/17 at 7:57 pm to OweO
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So it was cool as long as it involved his religion.
It's almost never about religious freedom. It's about the freedom to do as they please in the name of Christianity.
It's why the religious right poisons true conservatism, liberty is sacrificed in the name of pseudo-theocratic moral enforcement.
Posted on 3/19/17 at 7:58 pm to CorporateTiger
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Freedom of Religion means Freedom of Christianity to a lot of people here in Texas.
There are a lot of Christians in Texas.
There are a lot of Jews in Texas and for them Freedom of Religion means Freedom of Judaism.
There are a lot of Muslims in Texas and for them Freedom of Religion means Freedom of Islam!
I'm starting to detect a trend!
Posted on 3/19/17 at 7:58 pm to RedRifle
Well...one is the true religion, and the other is a tool of Satan.
Posted on 3/19/17 at 7:59 pm to RedRifle
For those outside of TX that don't know any better... Ken Paxton and his buddy Dan Patrick are complete doofuses.
Posted on 3/19/17 at 8:00 pm to Jake88
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Some religions are better than others.
But the ability to peacefully practice any religion is a foundational principle of our society. That some religions are harder to peacefully practice is irrelevant.
Posted on 3/19/17 at 8:01 pm to Roger Klarvin
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It's why the religious right poisons true conservatism, liberty is sacrificed in the name of pseudo-theocratic moral enforcement.
My, don't we swing a huge brush of religious intolerance!
Posted on 3/19/17 at 8:02 pm to udtiger
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Well...one is the true religion, and the other is a tool of Satan.
Also irrelevant
Posted on 3/19/17 at 8:03 pm to udtiger
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Well...one is the true religion, and the other is a tool of Satan.
Sorry, bub, but yours is the one of Satan and that other guy's is the one true religion.
At least if you hear him tell it.
Posted on 3/19/17 at 8:05 pm to Gaspergou202
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My, don't we swing a huge brush of religious intolerance!
I'm not the one supporting state regulation of peaceful religious practices.
I don't believe religion should be forced out of schools. The religious right believes all but one should be. That's the difference between them and me.
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