{"id":4095,"date":"2009-09-14T13:59:46","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T13:59:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-09-14T13:59:46","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T13:59:46","slug":"texas-teachers-forced-to-offer-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2009\/09\/texas-teachers-forced-to-offer-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas teachers forced to offer Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our friends over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/how-ricky-martin-unwittingly-became-the-new-face-of-gay-parenting-20090826\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> QUEERTY<\/strong><\/a> offer direction to Texas teachers, forced to implement Bible study into their classrooms.  How about including <cite>fact-or-fiction<\/cite> on the syllabus?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.queerty.com\/texas-school-children-now-forced-to-learn-whether-mary-magdalene-was-whorish-20090914\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Texas legislators decided there is room for Bible study in public schools. So they created a law mandating students receive Bible &#8220;literacy&#8221; teachings in the classroom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By state law, schools must bring kids up to speed on Adam and Eve, just like they do physics and trig. But the law doesn&#8217;t say how they need to go about doing it, which means some schools are having kids open up Bibles in standard classes, while other schools are offering Bible study as an elective.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friends over at QUEERTY offer direction to Texas teachers, forced to implement Bible study into their classrooms. 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