There's no rest for the wicked, and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) has been a busy little gremlin eradicating civil liberties left and right. He's going after shield laws, trying to indict people for doing their jobs, running a cringe-inducing campaign for a Senate seat in the Senate, still reportedly going through a divorce ( the "biblical" details of which have yet to fully come to light), working overtime to ban abortion everywhere,
It was part of a larger struggle over control of Congress in next year's midterm elections, but now the conflict has broadened: to California, where Gavin Newsom's Democrats are trying to squeeze more Democratic seats out of their map; to Indiana, where Republicans are hoping to repeat what they did in Texas on a smaller scale; and to other states across the country.
In Texas classrooms, we want the Word of God opened, the Ten Commandments displayed, and prayers lifted up, Paxton said in a statement on Tuesday, encouraging students to say the Lord's Prayer, as taught by Jesus Christ. The press release included the full text of the Lord's Prayer as it is written in the King James version of the Bible, the latest example of Paxton and other Texas officials seeming to endorse Christianity over other faiths.