Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick lamented that Louisiana beat Texas in requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed inside classrooms. The Texas Senate passed a bill...
The lieutenant governor laments Louisiana, not Texas, became the first state to require the displays after legislation stalled last year.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick speaks to Republican delegates on the first day of the Texas GOP convention, May 23, 2024, in San Antonio.AUSTIN — Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick vowed Thursday to pass a bill requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in Texas public school classrooms, similar to Patrick lamented that Texas’ neighbor beat it in enacting the law, noting a bill by state Sen. Phil King, R-Weatherford, cleared the Senate in 2023 but stalled in the House.“Texas WOULD have been and SHOULD have been the first state in the nation to put the 10 Commandments back in our schools,” Patrick said in a social media post, blaming the House’s Republican leader for costly delays.to the House on April 20, 2023.
The high court’s opinion “instead provided a test of whether a governmental display of religious content comports with America’s history and tradition,” King wrote.Patrick blamed House Speaker Dade Phelan of Beaumont, a fellow Republican, for the bill’s demise, arguing that he killed it “because the Democrats who put him in power opposed it.”
“Every Texas Republican House member would have voted for it,” Patrick wrote. “But, SPEAKER Dade Phelan killed the bill by letting it languish in committee for a month assuring it would never have time for a vote on the floor. This was inexcusable and unacceptable. Putting the Ten Commandments back into our schools was obviously not a priority for Dade Phelan.”Phelan and Patrick have clashed over a number of legislative priorities since Phelan became leader of the House in 2021.
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