After seeing a bit of Texas Senators discussing religion at school today, I am sure of two things.
Texas Senators need serious history Texas has died of separation of church and state
Today I learned that separation between the church and the nation is myth. We have also heard of the next broken history from the sponsor of Senator Mayes Middleton Bill 11 of R-Galveston, allowing schools to make time for prayer and religious studies on school day. Middleton was asked by Senator Sarah Eckhart. D-Travis County, if he read the discussion of the 1787 Constitutional Convention. He recited Ben Franklin’s prayer myth, saying he had it.
Warren Throckmorton
Transcript:
Senator Eckhardt: So did you review any of the debates leading up to the US Constitution and establishment clause?
Senator Middleton: In fact, there was something very well-known about constitutional treaties where things didn’t go very well. And Ben Franklin said, you know what, we need to start our day in prayer. This really doesn’t work. And when they did it, things started to go well. Yes, I reviewed history.
Senator Eckhardt: Senator Middleton, I pray every day.
In fact, this is only half correct. Ben Franklin offered daily prayer motions during the convention, but the delegates postponed for the day without voting on Franklin’s allegations. They “didn’t do that.” In other words, they did not pray that day, as a group of those days or other days, as Franklin asked them.
In fact, Franklin later recorded the quote in his journal: “The treaty except three or four people thought prayer was unnecessary.”
Texas Senator Sarah Eckhart; D-Travis County, speaking on Senate floor (screen cap)
Many people who want to blend religion, abuse and exaggerate Franklin’s call to prayer claim that at the time they began praying, or in fact, every day or like that, when they resisted the movements of the old gentleman. Back in 2017, I recently read daily notes from the Constitutional Treaty. Click here if you want to play June 28, 1787, when Franklin made a prayer move.
It’s a shame Senator Eckhardt didn’t provide the facts right away. Maybe she didn’t know them either.
The Senate passed the prayer bill and then discussed a bill that required Texas schools to post ten commandments to all classrooms. The bill was also passed.
According to Robert Downen, who had been faithful to monitor the lawsuit, the amendment to Senator Eckhart, along with Decalogue, allowed five pillars of Islam to fail. Clearly, these bills generally do not interest in religions participating in reading, but rather promote their religion over others, and because of the “statement, “litigation” and the class they want to add to the curriculum is Christian nationalism.
Today they succeeded in the task, but they failed the history test.
Warren Throckmorton is co-authored with Michael Coulter to get Jefferson right: Check out the facts about Thomas Jefferson and the producer of “Lies to Jefferson Reese.”
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