People hold in opposition to recent State Board of Education policies. A reader says public education should be focused on core essentials, not mandatory Bible readings.
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The American flag at the U.S. Capitol waves in the early morning light in October 2025. A good test of patriotism is holding free and fair elections and respecting the results, a reader says.
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Challenge Bible mandate
Re: “Texas mandates Bible readings,” Front Page, Saturday:
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Public education should remain focused on providing students with a strong foundation in essential subjects such as mathematics, reading, history and science.
A policy that allows one faith to influence classroom instruction could open the door for other belief systems to seek the same authority.
I consider myself a conservative, practicing Catholic/Christian, and my beliefs reinforce my support for religious liberty and keeping government institutions neutral regarding religion.
I hope legal challenges will examine this decision so we can focus on providing students with a quality education based on academic subjects and critical thinking.
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Re: “Tech column’s grand finale heralded by AI,” SA Inc., June 21:
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To read that business columnists Ronald Lipman and Dwight Silverman have been discontinued by the Express-News is disappointing.
There is still a bright spot in the week: staff writer Vincent Davis’ report on the attempt to save the Castroville paper and the efforts of Shari Biediger to assist in stellar reporting for the residents of that area.
Unfortunately, the independent journalism I grew up with is hard to come by, and I’m afraid artificial intelligence will soon only tell me what it wants me to know.
It’s been a great run, and I will miss all the humans.
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Column one of a kind
I am more than sad that Ronald Lipman’s legal column is discontinued.
He provided education and guidance unmatched by any other public source I could find.
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Was Lincoln unpatriotic?
Re: “No place like America,” Your Turn, June 20:
One of your readers contrasts the admiration of America by foreign visitors with Democrats who “would rather live in another country.”
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If this is so, it’s not because Democrats lack pride in America. Rather, they follow an old tradition of calling voters gullible and stupid, maybe evil, when they lose elections.
Both sides do this, but Republicans seem to be the only ones who also call their opponents unpatriotic.
A good test of patriotism is holding free and fair elections, and respecting the results. Republican leaders have been failing this test since 2020, and the few exceptions have been driven from office.
Democrats admit it when they lose elections. Some respond with glib talk of leaving the country. So what? A Republican congressman, Abraham Lincoln, used the same rhetoric.
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The inequality suffered by Black Americans was spreading to include “foreigners and Catholics,” he observed in 1859, which would cause him to “prefer to emigrate to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty.”
Who accuses Lincoln of lacking pride in America?
Henry Krausse, former Express-News assistant city editor
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