The Week in Quotes (Feb. 12 – 18)

Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes culled from news reports from across Texas, and beyond.

NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy, making the league’s first statement on the anti-LGBT “bathroom bill.” The comments came a few days after Houston hosted the Super Bowl.

If a proposal that is discriminatory or inconsistent with our values were to become law (in Texas), that would certainly be a factor considered when thinking about awarding future events.

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TFN President Kathy Miller, announcing the release of a new report on sex education in Texas schools.

When it comes to sex education, Texas is failing our students and their families. We have to trust young people with the information they need to make wise decisions about their reproductive health and their future. Ignorance won’t protect them.

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TFN President Kathy Miller, announcing the release of a new report on sex education in Texas schools.

Our state has become the poster child for abstinence-only-until-marriage sex education. [At the Legislature], it sometimes seems that sex education is a four-letter word to only be muttered in adult company.

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Rev. Charles Johnson of Pastors for Texas Children, on private school voucher proposals pending at the Texas Legislature.

There is not one single constitutional syllable about private schools. The Legislature has absolutely no authority over them. Such private voluntary assemblies are commonly religious in purpose and curriculum. For the state to insinuate itself into these spaces is egregious government overreach and violation of the religious liberty we cherish in this state.

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Jacquielynn Floyd, columnist for the Dallas Morning News, on the errors and biases found in classroom materials cited in the TFN Education Fund’s new report on sex education in Texas.

This would be a hilarious trip back to Leave It To Beaver land if it weren’t so insulting and damaging. But it is.