Protection of school prayer bill moves forward

[TexasTowelie]

A Senate committee approved legislation protecting students' religious freedoms Wednesday, but not without attempts to change the measure.

The Senate Education and Career committee shot down an amendment that would have expanded the bill to voucher schools.

"In fairness, any school that receives public funding should fall under this bill," said Sen. Mark Stoops, D-Bloomington, who voted against the bill. "And again I think that if it's good for public schools and charter schools, it would also be necessary for private schools that received vouchers."

Chairman Sen. Dennis Kruse, R-Auburn, said when lawmakers passed the original voucher language, they made a commitment to not weigh them down with regulations. In his eyes, this would have been another statute with added weight.

Read more: http://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/22/protection-school-prayer-bill-moves-forward/99502234/

[JEFF9K]

1. GOP wants Christianity in schools. Except for the Commandment about lying. nt

[Doreen]

2. Soooo, I assume that means if a Muslim child wants to do a prayer in class or have one the entire

School can follow before an assembly that that will be enforced as much as the fundamentalist Christians prayer that everyone will have to follow. Of course I talking about all religions. Oh, if anyone is Agnostic or Atheist they will not have to attend until all of the religious stuff is done...right?