Texas advances bill requiring 10 Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms

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  1. FatBack

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    It would be more logical than believing that Joe Biden got the most votes in history and that he's a great president.
     
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    Feel free to send me all of your currency or maybe black out the word God so then your currency can only have pictures of old white dead slave owners
     
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    My currency is a piece of metal imbedded with a chip or my phone via Apple Pay

    I cannot tell you the last time I had a cash transaction
     
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    I keep the majority of my money in savings and only as much in my debit as my monthly auto pay bills and a little rounding errors need.

    I got cash from savings to keep in my pocket. Should I drop my debit card I cannot be cleaned out beyond the amount I put in a monthly and a savings account is a lot harder to rip off than something on your phone
     
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    I wouldn’t say great. But I am not surprised that 80 million voted against Trump. Which is not shocking in the least.
     
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    I use a credit card pretty much exclusively, just have to pay it off each and every month (preferably 3-5 days before the bill is due to maximize reporting) or the fees will eat you alive.

    The good thing with credit cards is you are not responsible for fraudulent transactions and even if someone gets ahold of it they will expedite you a new one.

    I have friends that do the same saving / debt like you do though. Whatever works for people to stay out of debt because once that snowball starts it’s hard to get from under it.
     
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    I have tried and tried to tell them but it doesn’t ever seem to register. They LOVE their politicians so I can understand they are confused that others view them as public servants.

    The moment politics turned toward personality and not policy was the moment the Republican Party stoped being able to gain votes based on ideas.

    I am not a Biden fan, I will never wear anything with his name on it but I reluctantly vote for him again.
     
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    It works for me. I had to come out of pocket almost 3 Grand to get two screws put in my ankle a couple of weeks ago and aside from $900 I still owe the hospital I'm debt free. But I'm not complaining because the surgery out of pocket by itself would have been $28,000.

    I like to have cash in my pocket because it makes it easier for me to keep track of then trying to write down every transaction.

    And I don't do any banking on my phone.... I have a deep mistrust of that. Makes it too easy to spend your money. If I want to buy something that cost more than the cash in my pocket I've got to either go home and get more cash or go to the bank and that gives me time to think about if I need this purchase or not
     
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    Man. After years of failing to get nominated, he just needed a Trump to get in the White House. Quite frankly the reason Trump won is Hillary is despised more.
     
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    trump won due to the EC — people hated Hillary and she still did better than him with actual peoples votes.

    He has failed to garner the peoples votes twice now — pubs think third time is a charm
     
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    Here's Texas....again.
    Rep Bryan Slaton who is a married ex-pastor, anti- LGBTQ and is co-sponsor of the bill to make the second to last week in April until 2033 "Christian Heritage Week" just got caught big time.
    Betcha he was all for putting those 10 Commandments in every Texas public school classroom. LOL

    'Texas panel says lawmaker should be expelled for misconduct'

    "In the written investigation report, the committee said Slaton gave the 19-year-old intern and another young staffer alcohol at his home, that he had sex with the intern after she was intoxicated, and that he later showed the intern a threatening email but said everything would be fine if the incident was kept quiet. Slaton also asked a fellow lawmaker to keep his behavior secret, the committee said."

    cont
    https://apnews.com/article/texas-sl...expel-intern-2e80d8a4d0f9c9ce14b8c4b591cc567c
     
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    Keep religion out of public schools. Unless it can be demonstrated by empirical evidence. Then teach it in science class.
     
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    Another perverted sicko who hid behind a religious veil.
    Not anymore.
    Hopefully the parents of the 19b yr old intern investigate criminal charges.
    Slaton's mission was supposedly to protect children and young adults from being sexualized by Drag Queens etc so he should be the first to understand should the intern's parents want him to be criminally charged for giving her alcohol then sexualizing their daughter.


    What a dangerous ****ing sicko.
    https://twitter.com/BryanforHD2



    Bryan Slaton
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    Today, I filed HB 4129, which BANS erotic performances, including drag shows, in the presence of kids. The State has a duty to protect kids from being sexually exploited, and HB 4129 is the most comprehensive bill to stop the sexualization of kids by these performances. #txlege


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    Wokeism is a religion. Many of the tenets of the woke are every bit as founded on supernatural claims and annecdotal stories as any belief in a god -- and pursued with more ardor than many traditional religions. Keep that [expletive] out of the public schools.
     
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    Then, we have to keep the law our of our schools, too.

    Keeping the kids ignorant and then holding them to laws about which they have little to no knowledge is morally objectionable.

    I think we are WAY better off when kids are educated enough to know how to protect themselves, the damage that can happen due to sexual activity (stds, body impacts, financial impacts, impacts on future life choices, etc.).

    Pretending they won't get pregnant, stds, and other impacts if only we can keep them ignorant is, to me, an absolutely ridiculous direction - destined for failure.

    Also, we have to remember that puberty has been coming at younger and younger age. (Reasons worth discussing.)

    So, what seems reasonable to some adults due to their own histories may not apply at the same age level.
     
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    Also to be noted from the article -
    Some how I am not even surprised. It always seems to be the loudest one's that are the most screwed up behind closed doors and get caught doing inappropriate behavior.
     
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    That would be the "morning after" pill.
    I remember reading about this sadistic bastard and his bill but didn't connect the dots until now,

    Bryan Slaton's bill would make abortion punishable by death
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    CBS 19
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    Mar 10, 2021 — A Texas lawmaker has filed a bill that would abolish and criminalize abortions, leaving women and physicians who perform the procedure to face ...


    Did state GOP lawmaker introduce death penalty, abortion ...
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    Austin American-Statesman
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    Jun 30, 2022 — Bryan Slaton's bill, HB 3326. That bill would have criminalized abortion as homicide, a crime that can be punishable by death. "The bill will ...


    GOP Texas lawmaker introduces bill to allow death penalty ...
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    Mar 9, 2021 — “Today, I filed HB 3326 to Abolish Abortion in Texas,” Texas State Rep. Bryan Slaton (R) said on Twitter. “The bill will end the discriminatory ...
     
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    that is what the story said, also said Moses was not happy the people were worshiping the golden calf
     
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    this really has a lot to do with Texas internal politics, especially Republican internal politics. What Rep. Slaton did was absolutely wrong, but Rep Slaton and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on several key issues in the Texas Legislature. And Rep. Slaton is holding back on some of the more outrageous things that Lt. Dan Patrick wants done. Hence why it is being revealed.

    If there was no spat between the two of them, I doubt this would have seen the light of day.
     
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    don't have to worship the God of Money if one doesn't want too
     
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    Yes, government schools should only be one affordable option for the parents and guardians of children and teachers.
     
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    That's not an excuse for making the government option less than a high quality option.

    And, the constitution does not provide for funding the teaching of a religion.
     
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    The constitution doesn't mention education at all. According to the constitution, education policy belongs to the states. The Federal Education Department is unconstitutional.
     
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    Then you should demand an end to government run schools.
     
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    The failure of states to provide for quality education is a threat to our national competitiveness, to our national defense, to our standard of living.

    I'm fine with having states trying to fix their problems, but in way too many cases that is not happening.

    One might think we could just ignore the problem at the federal level, thus forcing states to improve. But, it clearly does NOT work that way.

    When the federal government ends up needing to help states with their education funding, there has to be federal level decision making on the distribution of our federal tax dollars.

    Allowing schools to go down the toilet is not something that we as a nation can tolerate.
     
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