Texas Law requires public schools to display donated 'In God We Trust' posters

[Demovictory9]

Pic of the signs here

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Texas-schools-In-God-We-Trust-signs-17380163.php

https://www.rawstory.com/texas-god-public-schools/


Under the law, Senate Bill 797, which passed during last year’s legislative session, schools are required to display the posters if they are donated.


The law went into effect last year, but these posters weren’t popping up then as many school officials and parents were more concerned about new COVID-19 strains and whether their local public school would even open for in-person classes.

The “In God We Trust” law was authored by state Sen. Bryan Hughes, the East Texas Republican who crafted Texas’ Senate Bill 8, which restricted abortion to the first six weeks or so of pregnancy starting Sept. 1, 2021. The abortion law artfully skirted legal challenge by relying on the public instead of law enforcement to enforce it.


Hughes’ “In God We Trust” poster law is also precisely written. Texas public schools or colleges must display the national motto in a “conspicuous place” but only if the poster is “donated” or “purchased by private donations.”

After an appearance for a Northwest Austin Republican Women’s Club event on Tuesday, Hughes touted the new law and praised the groups stepping up to donate the poster

[GPV]

1. F'd up Tx style.

[MacKasey]

2. Put a sticker on it that says All Others Pay Cash

Thank you, Jean Shepherd

[Walleye]

11. Yep. Always cracks me up. They only got half a motto there.

[SunSeeker]

3. But I bet they won't let a school hang up a donated Black Lives Matter poster.

It's all about white nationalist indoctrination.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. The American Taliban, formerly the Republican party, strikes again.

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!

[Emile]

5. When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag

and carrying a cross.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

6. smdh

[eShirl]

7. does it have to be a pre-approved design or can I design my own?

[Takket]

8. Put it In Microscopic letters on the bottom

And lgbtq pride on the rest of the poster.

Lol

[multigraincracker]

9. How about a

"In Yahweh we Trust" poster?

[twodogsbarking]

10. I'd be rippin' them down.

[Walleye]

12. How long before they outlaw synagogues in Texas?

[Lochloosa]

13. There not?

[Walleye]

14. 🤦‍♀️

[Lonestarblue]

24. And mosques. And any other symbol of a non-Christian religion, such as a Star of David.

Texas politicians like Hughes are funded by oil billionaires who are trying to kill public education so that extremist private Christian schools will be the only option and will be funded by all taxpayers. I’m not sure if this is the most backward state in the Union, but it’s close. Yesterday, I read a social media post by someone insisting that the contrails left by jets were really someone spraying something in the environment to prevent rain, claiming that it was well-known science. When asked for scientific citation, she posted an old YouTube video. That she thought she was providing unarguable proof says a lot about some of the Texas voters and why we have so many irrational state legislators and several in the House that are about as dumb as dirt.

If we voters are unable to wrest control of the state from the wingnuts, it will be as bad as Afghanistan in a few years as far as women’s and minority rights are concerned. Forced births will just add to the poverty that already exists.

[Historic NY]

15. They should just hand out coins or dollars bills, for that personal touch.

[303squadron]

16. "Howdy Arabia"

Sand, oil, Taliban!

[moonshinegnomie]

17. write it in arabic

the law says if the poster included the motto,the us flag and the etxas flag then schools have to dsplay it.
it doesnt say the motto has to be in english.

writie it in arabic.
send copies to schools in the reddest parts of the state.

[IcyPeas]

38. an atheist just did this.

Link to tweet

[Ferrets are Cool]

18. Fucked up shit

I have nothing else.

[Irish_Dem]

19. We are being forced to convert to the GOP religion.

It is being crammed down our throats.

[MiHale]

20. How about...

Atheists chuckle…In God We Trust

[Botany]

21. Christo Fascism

n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. Government establishment of a state religion: Mono-theism. . . . nt

[Liberal In Texas]

23. More crazy crap from the Texas Lege.

It used to be a lot of nutty bills would be introduced and they would just die. Now with the repubs turning into the MAGA party they're passing and our wanna-be tyrant Abbott is signing anything put in front of him.

I hope we can get rid of some of these crazies in Nov.

[kacekwl]

25. Too bad we don't have a

Supreme Court that believes in the constitution. You know the part about separation of church and state. Also make no law regarding religion or some such shit.

[Swede]

26. But I trust Thor way more.

nt

[ashredux]

27. Folks, Texas will soon begin to return to sanity...Beto will beat Abbott...

[Bucky]

28. Maybe I'll put up THIS poster in my classroom this year

In Ba'al We Trust

[haele]

35. Mammon. Baal has ethics, even if he accepts human sacrifice.

Mammon has no ethics, just greed.

Haele

[LeftinOH]

29. GOP education policy: Putting up f*cking posters. Pathetic.

[raccoon]

30. ACLU are you on this? Nt

[LiberalFighter]

31. Use a Sharpie on them.

[DFW]

32. More of Abbott's Texas-sized Soviet Silliness

Back in the days of the old Union of Soviet Socialist Relics, including outlying places like Castro’s Cuba or even Rene's Seychelles, the Party (whatever version of socialist paradise terminology it was using for itself) was so insecure about the people’s dissatisfaction with their rule that they had to plant posters and propaganda banners just about everywhere. These were “helpful reminders,” just in case the people momentarily forgot how wonderful the current dictatorship was, you see. The more they did that, of course, the less the people believed them. I saw them on Mahé, I saw them in Havana, I saw them in East Berlin as the soldiers goose-stepped past in unison. Heil Honecker!

And after all that, the governor of Texas now thinks the tactic will suddenly have a different result.

What was that definition of insanity, again?

[Martin68]

33. I suggest we print and donate posters with quotes from Jefferson, Adams, and Washington stating

that the United States is not a "Christian country."

[haele]

34. Slap a Coexist sticker on it.

Or a Loki or "Which God?" Sticker.

Sucks to be an atheist in an Xtian Nationalist district.

Haele

[Emile]

36. Christian Taliban has taken over the conservative party!

[dalton99a]

37. The posters will surely make teenagers more religious