Well, another Texas Session Law pamphlet arrived today, and we are up to 690 laws passed this year. The feature this time is that the Legislature added "One State, Under God" to the Texas Pledge of Allegiance.
If you can still say the Texas Pledge, my hat's off to you, but are we now better off because a small percentage of the population will now declare that the State of Texas is "under God"? Or, more likely, did we just buy another lawsuit with the expense for our own Attorney General to put a cast of lawyers defending the law, and the State possibly paying the attorney for the other side if the suit is successful?
90 days every two years, or 2 days every 90 years? Which is the appropriate schedule of legislative sessions in Texas?
****Update 8/29/2007: There's been one lawsuit filed, and the judge refused to keep little kids from saying the pledge with the new language. In these cases, context is everything, and I can't figure out why it is necessary, NOW, to make the statement that Texas acknowledges God's role in its sovereignty. And, while I believe that all Americans should make that acknowledgement, I find it particularly galling that we will have to go to the Courthouse to figure out if it is appropriate to do so.
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As Baylor's unofficial lobbyist to the Lege, I am terribly disappointed that the law did not include the phrase "one state, sanctified by the precious blood of Our Savior Jesus Christ" in the TX pledge, which is what I spent most of my budget trying to get passed.
Great TinkyWinky photo. Saw the HornedFrog's legs off!
Red Andrews
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