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Thursday, August 21, 2025

The Freedom From Religion Foundation is calling on Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to retract a recent unconstitutional threat to eject citizens from the state Senate chamber if they do not stand during official prayers. During the Senate's Aug. 15 session, Sen. Angela Paxton delivered a Christian invocation "in the name of Jesus, who has saved us, who keeps us safe, and who is coming again." Immediately afterward, Patrick admonished members of the public gallery who had remained seated: "For those of you who didn't stand, next time you come to the gallery, you stand for the invocation. It's respecting the Senate. If you don't stand for the invocation, I'll have you removed. We asked you to stand. I've never seen a gallery ever have any members in my 17 years of people who refused to stand for the invocation. It will not be tolerated."

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Nothing says "religious freedom" like being told to stand for a prayer that ends with: "In the name of Jesus, who has saved us, who keeps us safe, and who is coming again."

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-- ffrf.org (@ffrf.org) Aug 19, 2025 at 9:22 AM

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#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-20 01:04 AM | Reply

A Citizen being Trespassed for objecting to being prosthallatised at a secular government assembly...What LAW calls for that that?

Is it Felony or a Misdemeanor?

Pretty sure that Being Trespassed from a public property requires a crime.

#2 | Posted by Wardog at 2025-08-20 03:08 PM | Reply

So do it! Show us your true authoritarian anti-democratic natures.

So you can be sued for a billion dollars.

#3 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-08-20 03:14 PM | Reply

#2: Indeed-- what crime has been committed? This loser wrote the screed The Second Most Important Book You Will Ever Read: A Personal Challenge to Read the Bible. Here is Lt Governor Dan Patrick's stellar resume: ballotpedia.org

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-20 03:22 PM | Reply

Out of their earshot, rightwing "Christians" distatefully smear Jews as "Christ Killers." So I guess if Laura Loomer ever visited the Texas Senate and doesn't join in the convocation for her Savior Jesus Christ, this Jimmy Swaggart reincarnation would have the female pit fiend ejected: www.aljazeera.com

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-20 04:00 PM | Reply

Can compulsory Sundays be that far away?

#6 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-08-21 12:41 PM | Reply

RESPECT MY AUTHORITAAH!

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#7 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-08-21 12:50 PM | Reply

#6

Not as long as the NFL owns it.

#8 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-08-21 01:26 PM | Reply

These self-righteous hypocrites like Patrick are basically the Pharisees of Jesus' time, who were both the Law and the Religion;

13"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.

15"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.

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23"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices - mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law - justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.

24You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.

25"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.

27"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.

28In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

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33"You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?

34Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town.

35And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

36Truly I tell you, all this will come on this generation.
(which it did in 70 AD, less than 40 years later when the Temple was destroyed... and the rituals haven't been practiced in 2000 years... but the plans and Building Permit are ready to go now)

biblehub.com

#9 | Posted by Corky at 2025-08-21 01:26 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

If you have been keeping up with Abbottistan's crazy government and the recent bills passed and executive orders blathered, one realizes that Texas is a fascist state.

#10 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-08-21 01:43 PM | Reply

Texas is almost as big of a shit hole as North Carolina

#11 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-21 02:12 PM | Reply

"Stupid heathens!"

#12 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-21 02:18 PM | Reply

Patrick is a sell out and full time lunatic, but thanks to him for curating the Hometown Hero wellness box.

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#13 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-08-21 02:28 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

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