Ten Commandments bill dies in TX House!

While good news, don't hold your breath. It's Texas. Where there's a will, there's a way, and they are hell-bent on dragging the country back a hundred years or more.

You won’t get any argument from me - I’ll just take any sliver of good news right now.

My God (no pun intended). Scary. I worked for a state legislature before. Looks like this senate bill made it through the senate and was crossing over into the House for approval. Thank God the legislators in the House let it die.

I'm not sure if that's how it works in Texas. Scary that the bill made it out of the Senate (approved by Senate).

Scary times R3, but conservatives are still not as powerful as they want you to think they are.

The real question is : Which version of the Ten Commandments should be posted, since there are two. With some differences. Deuteronomy indicates that everyone is a sinner if they disobey this one:

Keep the Sabbath day . . . you shall perform no labor, neither you, your son, your daughter, your manservant, your maidservant, your ox, your donkey, any of your livestock, nor the stranger who is within your cities, in order that your manservant and your maidservant may rest like you. And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that the L-rd your G‑d took you out from there with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm; therefore, the L-rd, your G‑d, commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.

[quote]Scary times [R3], but conservatives are still not as powerful as they want you to think they are.

They are if no one has the balls to push back. Looking at you, Dems.

Why is it always the Ten Commandments and never the Beatitudes?

Can we install the Quran then?

But that's the point R6, they talk as if they were 100% of the American population, but Texas is still 47% (or 48%) Democrat. The red wave of 2022 did NOT happen and Joe Biden is the most voted politician of the USA ever, followed by Barack Obama.

Republicans want you to think that all independents are angry right-wingers and that all states will turn red, that Americans can't stand democrats and that there's nothing you can do to stop them and that they'll win every presidential election.

Don't fall for that trap, they are lot less powerful than that and a lot let powerful than they wish they were.

Texas has gone to shit ever since Ann Richards lost the governors seat to George W Bush. Elections have consequences. It's been downhill ever since. I see zero change of turnaround or redemption.

“Thou shalt not kill” was too controversial for them.

A future Democratic governor of Texas?

From R12: "'This bill to me is not only unconstitutional, it’s not only un-American, I think it is also deeply un-Christian,' he told her, as she stood motionless. 'And I say that because I believe this bill is idolatrous. I believe it is exclusionary. And I believe that it is arrogant, and those three things, in my reading of the Gospel, are diametrically opposed to the teachings of Jesus.'"

Am I supposed to feel all warm and fuzzy about a politician saying something like this on the floor of a state capitol building, just because he's a Democrat and holds the allegedly-"liberal" position on an issue? Because I really, really don't. Leave your religion out of our government and out of our public schools, period.

You don't have to, R13.

But would you have preferred that the bill passed?

Would you rather republicans continue to be in complete control of Texas state government?

You find that appropriate on the floor of a statehouse, huh, R14? "Un-Christian... Idolatrous... Gospel... Jesus..."

R15, fighting fanaticism with fanaticism is not my idea of living in a free and democratic society, no. And I am anything but a "purist".

[quote] fighting fanaticism with fanaticism is not my idea of living in a free and democratic society

It's not optimal, but it may what it takes to win in a ruby red state.

Why post something you just violate every day of your life?

"It's not optimal"

"Not optimal", R17? When you condone this from a Democratic politician, you remove our ability to criticize it when Republican / conservative politicians do it. You remove our right to live free from others' religions.

"...but it may what it takes to win in a ruby red state."

Do you neo-Libs care about ANYTHING but "winning"? Can't you see how short-sighted it is to betray the Enlightenment values this country was founded upon to win one state for the short-term?

Now, if there are any school shootings, we will definitely know it's because the Ten Commandments were not displayed. Guns don't kill; the lack of the Ten Commandments does.

I gave you 15 Commandments, douchebags.

This guy is great. He's a Christian so magats can't attack him for that but a democrat. Hopefully, he has a long career.

I think even Texas realize how stupid this bill was.

It was all for show.

Texas is full of dumbasses.

What a shit state. Fuck them.

I'd never step foot in that putrid state, so I couldn't care less about them and their stupid laws.

[quote]“Thou shalt not kill” was too controversial for them.

I think they would be able to find another way to teach the rules that apply to a secular society, like don't kill, don't steal, don't lie, don't commit adultery.