We just sent out the following statement on the end of the 2019 session of the Texas Legislature. […]
Religious Freedom
Texas House Committee Advances Bill on Posting Ten Commandments in Public Schools
Texas legislators this year claim they finally want to do a better job making sure public schools have the funds they need to educate our state’s schoolchildren. Well, the House Public Education Committee isn’t helping after last week approving a bill on posting the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms. In fact, that bill is a church-state train wreck that could tie up school districts in […]
Push for Public School Bible Courses Gets White House Endorsement Regardless of Serious Problems
Efforts by religious conservatives to get more public schools to teach courses about the Bible got the public support of President Trump late last month: […]
TFN Statement: Supreme Court’s Colorado Cakeshop Ruling Does Not Grant Businesses a Right to Use Religion to Discriminate
Today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a Colorado case does not grant businesses a right to use religion to discriminate. We just sent out the following press release: […]
David Barton Makes the Misleading Case for Politicizing Houses of Worship
Religious-righters are upset that President Trump and congressional Republicans failed to repeal the so-called “Johnson Amendment” in last year’s big tax bill. Last week David Barton, the prominent religious-right huckster and phony historian from Texas, tried again to make the case for getting churches and other houses of worship even more involved in partisan politics. Not surprisingly, he did so by mischaracterizing […]
