Senate Bill 1515 was one of several legislative attempts by conservative Christians to center public life around their religious views. Texas txlege txhouse ChristianNationalism ReligiousRight extremism
The Ten Commandments monument on the Capitol grounds in Austin on July 16, 2012.
The bill would have required public school classrooms to display copies of the Ten Commandments that are at least 16 inches wide and 20 inches tall, and “in a size and typeface that is legible to a person with average vision from anywhere in the classroom.” The bill comes amid a broader normalization on the right of Christian nationalism, the belief that America’s founding was God-ordained and its institutions and laws should favor Christianity. Recent polling by the Public Religion Research Institute found more than half of Republicans adhere to or sympathize with claims that the U.S. should be a strictly Christian nation.
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