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Texas Headed for Constitutional Train Wreck Says Religious Studies Chairman

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"I predict we're headed for a constitutional train wreck," said Mark Chancey, chairman of the religious studies department at Southern Methodist University. "The people who suffer will be the educators and the students, and the people who will foot the bill will be us the taxpayers."

Public school Bible classes can be wonderfully enriching, he said, but teachers need resources and specific guidelines.

"Instead, the state board of education is sending them into a minefield without a map," Chancey said.

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{"commentId":2265529,"authorDomain":"iarnuocon"}

Kind of reminds me of Louisiana's "academic freedom" bills.

  1. craft bad bill designed to bypass Constitution
  2. pass bad bill into law
  3. pretend not to have foreseen the effects when public school gets sued
  4. pass the buck to the taxpayers

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Reply#1 - Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:53 PM EDT
{"commentId":2274841,"authorDomain":"LonoKemp"}

Kind of reminds me of Louisiana's "academic freedom" bills.

1. craft bad bill designed to bypass Constitution 2. pass bad bill into law 3. pretend not to have foreseen the effects when public school gets sued 4. pass the buck to the taxpayers

-Hopefully the final tally of states experiencing similar circumstances won't reach 50.

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#1.1 - Thu Jul 24, 2008 10:26 PM EDT
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Or Louisiana's law enabling the castration of sex offenders. Or, come to think of it, Texas's apparent belief in its right to take hundreds of students away from their parents for the crime of following the wrong religion.

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#1.2 - Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:36 AM EDT
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