Texas Cheap Political Stunt: Putting The 10 Commandments Into Classrooms

Texans may be debating on whether to place the 10 commandments in classrooms.

Will Texas Place The 10 Commandments Into Classrooms?

I'm a firm believer in keeping religion a private matter. When it's kept private, it's respectful of everyone and their beliefs. When you put it in a "public square" there's really no choice but to water it down and/or offend someone who doesn't believe the exact way you do. In case you didn't know, there are 45,000+ various Christian denominations out there, so people getting upset is inevitable.

Texans Are Getting Issue Fatigue

I also no longer care about this topic strongly enough to get a rise out of me, which is what this proposal seems designed to do, and that's upset the folks that are against it. This baloney "issue" has been proposed over and over since the 1980's and it's just a cheap political stunt, and a chance at virtue signaling and that's about it. It's even slimier than that, with politicians trying to sneak it into classrooms under the guise of it being "historical".   I would not even bother with this other than to put these knuckleheads' on warning that we're onto them.

Does Texas Need It?

Some will say that kids are so wild and out of control that they need this kind of threat/reminder in the schools. Without getting too far into the weeds here, murder rates were higher in 1979 when the 10 commandments were allowed in schools then they are in the present day. I hope that fact opens your eyes a bit. It didn't help before and it won't help now. I'm sorry to let facts get in the way of political talking points, but that's just the way it is.

The Texas Focus Is WAY Off

This past summer Texas opted out of a feeding program that could have benefited 3.8 million Texas kids saying they didn't have enough "time" to get the program running. Now that would be a real way to benefit Texas kids, but instead we're worrying about placing a document on the walls that will fade into the background like a "Hang In There" kitty poster. Get it together Texas politicians, this is just embarrassing.