Bill Text: TX HJR65 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the prohibition of government interference with certain speech by religious leaders and students.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-03 - Referred to State Affairs [HJR65 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HJR65-Introduced.html
| 84R3777 SCL-D | ||
| By: Riddle | H.J.R. No. 65 | |
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| proposing a constitutional amendment relating to the prohibition of | ||
| government interference with certain speech by religious leaders | ||
| and students. | ||
| BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 6, Article I, Texas Constitution, is | ||
| amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 6. (a) All men have a natural and indefeasible right | ||
| to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own | ||
| consciences. No man shall be compelled to attend, erect or support | ||
| any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry against his | ||
| consent. No human authority ought, in any case whatever, to control | ||
| or interfere with the rights of conscience in matters of religion, | ||
| and no preference shall ever be given by law to any religious | ||
| society or mode of worship. | ||
| (b) The government of this state or a political subdivision | ||
| of this state may not control or interfere with: | ||
| (1) any political speech expressed by a religious | ||
| leader in a house of worship; or | ||
| (2) a student's voluntary expression of a religious | ||
| viewpoint at a school event or graduation ceremony. | ||
| (c) But it shall be the duty of the Legislature to pass such | ||
| laws as may be necessary to protect equally every religious | ||
| denomination in the peaceable enjoyment of its own mode of public | ||
| worship. | ||
| SECTION 2. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be | ||
| submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 3, 2015. | ||
| The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the | ||
| proposition: "The constitutional amendment relating to the | ||
| prohibition of government interference with certain political | ||
| speech by religious leaders and certain religious expression by | ||
| students." | ||
