James Talarico

The idea is they didn't want anyone to make it too small to where someone wouldn't read it.

But the bill says that the school doesn't have to spend money on it.

It can be donated.

And that sounds fine to most people until you realize there's this huge network of Christian nationalist organizations that are already preparing to flood every school with these Ten Commandments posters for all of their classrooms.

So the donation thing sounds like it's kind of innocuous until you realize that the donations are already ready to go from all these outside groups.

So there's going to be legal challenges, of course, but if it's not struck down in the courts –

every teacher is gonna have to put up the 10 commandments in their classroom against their wills, even if they don't want to.

I mean, I just, again, speaking as a Christian, if we have to force people to put up a poster,

To me, that means that we have a dead religion, a religion that no longer moves people, a religion that no longer speaks to people's hearts.

If we have to prove our legitimacy by micromanaging what teachers put up in their classroom, I mean, to me, that means we have a real crisis in our faith.

We should be leading by example, not by mandate.

How did this get proposed, and what is the support for it?

Well, the support is pretty broad within the Republican caucus.

Again, I serve in the state.

Yeah, I don't think there was a single Republican who voted against it this time around.

And again, I serve in the state legislature.

A lot of people think that I'm a congressman.

I serve here in Austin at the state capitol.

So I'm a state representative.

So I serve.