Texas Just Did What Every Other State Should Have Done Years Ago

Texas just made a move that’ll have progressives clutching their pearls from coast to coast. The State Board of Education voted to require public schools to teach the historical context of the Bible, affecting more than 5 million students. And you know what? It’s about time someone had the backbone to do it.

This isn’t some theocratic takeover. It’s common sense. You can’t understand Western civilization without understanding the Bible. Period. Our founders knew it. Lincoln knew it. Every great American leader has acknowledged that our republic rests on a foundation of Judeo-Christian values, whether that makes modern academics uncomfortable or not.

The new curriculum will weave biblical passages throughout K-12 education alongside other classic literature. Elementary students will encounter picture-book adaptations of David and Goliath. Older kids will study Adam and Eve, the Book of Jonah, Psalms, Genesis, and Lamentations. These aren’t just religious texts. They’re the bedrock stories that shaped our language, our laws, and our understanding of right and wrong.

Critics will scream about separation of church and state, conveniently forgetting that phrase appears nowhere in the Constitution. What the First Amendment actually prohibits is the establishment of a state religion and interference with free exercise. Teaching the historical and cultural significance of the Bible does neither. It simply acknowledges reality.

Think about how absurd our current approach has been. We’ve spent decades scrubbing any mention of God from our schools while wondering why kids lack moral grounding. We teach Shakespeare without explaining his biblical references. We discuss the Civil Rights Movement while ignoring that it was fundamentally a Christian movement led by preachers. We expect students to grasp the Gettysburg Address, which the new Texas curriculum will emphasize, without understanding the religious framework Lincoln operated within.

This vote came right after Texas won another fight to mandate posting the Ten Commandments in every classroom. The momentum is building. Other states are watching. Some will follow because they recognize that a generation raised without any exposure to these foundational texts is a generation cut off from its own heritage.

The Guardian and other outlets are already framing this as controversial, which tells you everything about where the media stands. To them, teaching kids about the most influential book in human history is somehow radical. But letting gender ideology run rampant in elementary schools? That’s just being inclusive.

Here’s the thing. Parents across America, regardless of their personal faith, understand that biblical literacy matters. They want their kids to recognize references to the Good Samaritan, to understand what “a voice crying in the wilderness” means, to grasp why “Am I my brother’s keeper?” resonates through our culture. These stories and phrases form the connective tissue of our civilization.

Texas isn’t imposing worship. They’re restoring context. There’s a massive difference, though don’t expect the usual suspects to acknowledge it. The free market of ideas works best when students actually know what those ideas are and where they came from. You can’t make informed choices about your beliefs if you’re kept ignorant of the traditions that shaped your world.

This curriculum builds on America’s actual foundation, not the sanitized version peddled in most textbooks. It treats students like they’re capable of engaging with complex, important material. And it refuses to pretend that our nation’s character emerged from a vacuum, disconnected from the faith that animated our founders and sustained us through our darkest hours.

Five million Texas students will now get an education that previous generations took for granted. That’s not indoctrination. That’s just honest teaching.

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