Good, there's no stronger driver of atheism than being forced to read boring canaanite fan fiction.

Add it to the huge and ever-growing pile of "reasons to not live in Texas". Hopefully Texans have enough of this bullshit and kick out the clowns responsible for this. But given how voters are being disenfranchised in many parts of the country, that's very unlikely.

Doesn’t the first clause of the first amendment say the government shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion?

I guess Texas can’t read.

The Supreme Court has already ruled against this. The point is to let this corrupt court reverse that ruling.

Can parents exempt their children from this? Because they already let them avoid sex education and anything that might not be hetero.

The American Taliban

Ya’ll Queda strikes again

On the plus side, forcing middle-schoolers to actually read the Bible is a great way to get them to hate it. The Bible is... not exactly an enjoyable reading experience, and that's coming from someone who loves to read. You think this is going to be anything but torture for today's TikTok-brain kids?

Good. Kids should know things like Ezekiel 23:20

Bold of you to assume America's public school students are still capable of reading.

Teacher should make a whole thing of teaching them the original languages of each passage, and also the Latin Vulgate so they'll get something useful out of it.

It's okay I'm sure they'll focus on the passage about the rich getting into heaven as likely as a camel going through a needles eye and all that chasing money changers from the temple

They did the specifically to get sued. Then they can claim their being attacked by the left/woke/lgbt/athiest/satinist/bogeyman and make a bunch of noise when (if but probably when) it's ruled unconstitutional. It's become their MO; do something blatantly illegal, then kick and scream like a toddler because you forced everybody else to sue to strike it down. The assholes get to brag that they did something to protect religious freedom, or cultural values, or family protection, or some such shit, and then they get to make a lot of noise in the press when they get knocked on their ass for it. Then while the people who actually care about the law are busy fighting that they can repeat the process two or three more times. It's sisyphian bullshit and I hate it.

Isn't Mythology required reading in many states? How is this different? (ducks)

But the ones pushing the law didn't read the bible.

Reading doesn't mean understanding. If I had children in Texas, I'd encourage them to ask questions over and over.

Oh thank goodness! I was worried about xtian belief falling off a cliff the past several decades.

Now we can get the government to compel an underage captive audience to read from "the" bible and hopefully compel them to convert!

-- xtianists

The Church of Satan should disseminate reading material as well.