Warren Chisum likes kids breathing diesel fumes from dirty buses

The wingnut Texas state representative sees no need to spend moneyto pay to clean up school bus exhaust.

And, Mr. “bible as literature in state classrooms” says this: “The problem is, their science is not very good.”

What a laugh!

Once again, Warren Chisum outdoes himself

The Texas Senate's windbag of the windy Panhandle shows why we should consider other legislative ideas of his, such as the “Bible as literature” book, with much skepticism: his plan for free marriage licenses for couples that do premarital counseling.

We can only guess how Chisum would apply the Bible, the next step past Bible as literature, to this counseling about a legally secular institution.

It's not only intrusion into private lives, as the newspaper story said; knowing Chisum, it's another attempt to tear down the First Amendment wall separating church and state.

Plus, a two-year wait on divorce for non-covenant marrieds might fall under some version of prior restraint, restraint of trade, or similar, on its constitutionality - not that that would stop Chisum, or even cross his mind.

Bible as literature in public schools? Yeah, but look who’s behind the idea

It’s gay-baiting Texas State Sen. Warren Chisum who’s pushing this baby, so when he claims this is to treat the Bible as only literature “and not a worship document”, don’t believe him for a second.

Besides, IMO, this still runs into church-state separation First Amendment issues if the Bible is the only scripture so treated. (And, please do NOT trot out the “Judeo” fig leaf of “Judeo-Christian” beliefs, scriptures, etc., because it is, ultimately, just that — a fig leaf.)

So, if I counter Chiusm by saying, fine, let’s also teach the Quran as literature, including the sections about jihad, or if I say, fine, let’s teach the Norse Elder Edda, about Ragnarok and Valhalla, what then?

First, I’ll say, let’s teach the Bible as myth (by literary definition), alongside the others. Then let’s watch him blow his stack.

Then, I’ll say, Warren, are we going to have kids reading Song of Songs? The passage in Genesis where Lot is willing to substitute his daughters to rape rather than visiting angels? The passage in Judges where a man abandons his concubine, then, after finding her raped to death the next day, dismembers her body and sends pieces around tribal Israel as a cry to jihad of his own? The chapter after that, where the tribe of Benjamin is left so male-decimated they are officially encouraged by other tribes to abduct women from a village that didn’t show up for battle, as a means to replenish their numbers?

So, yes, Warren Chisum, Bible as literature? Bring it on. I’ll go get my teaching certification and gladly teach the most juicy parts as literature.

What a nutbar.

Gay-bashing not enough for Warren Chisum

Now, it’s evolution as a product of Kabbalah and Pharaisees

Chism, one of the biggest rectal irritants in the Texas Legislature, used House operations to recycle bilge from a Georgia state representative, Ben Bridges, which said:

Indisputable evidence – long hidden but now available to everyone – demonstrates conclusively that so-called ‘secular evolution science’ is the Big Bang, 15-billion-year, alternate 'creation scenario' of the Pharisee Religion.

Bridges also had a link to a website describing Albert Einstein and Carl Sagan as “Kabbalists.”

Chism next “spun” what he had did as nothing but a “courtesy” to Bridges.

We know that he lies on any red-meat social issue before the Lege. What’s different this time?