Not all religious organizations favor teaching lessons from the Bible as an option in Texas elementary schools.
"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."That’s the teaching from the collection of wise sayings called "Proverbs in the Bible."But not all religious organizations favor teaching lessons from the Bible as an option in Texas elementary schools."I think it’s very bad for religion, and it’s very bad for public education," said the Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, the president and CEO of Interfaith Alliance.
"Don’t you want control over how your faith is taught? Don’t you want to tell those stories yourself and be the one who imparts the meaning of those stories instead of having someone who you don’t know talk about your own faith?" Raushenbush said.In a preliminary vote earlier this week, eight of the 15 board members said they were in favor of adopting the Bluebonnet Learning state-developed instructional material.
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