After Louisiana passed a law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said that Texas should be next.
After Louisiana passed a law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments , Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said this week that Texas could have been the first to do so — and should be the next. The state Senate , which Patrick leads, approved legislation last year that instructed public elementary and secondary schools to display a framed copy of the Ten Commandments “in a conspicuous place in each classroom of the school.” The bill, authored by state Sen.
Texas GOP eyes separation of church and state in schools after Supreme Court prayer ruling The post was yet another escalation of the ongoing feud between Patrick and Phelan, a fellow Republican who just came out on top of a bitter and expensive primary battle to maintain his seat in the Legislature. Phelan is now eyeing a third term as leader of the lower chamber; his office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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