How is it that no one in Texas seems to be aware that the US Supreme Court settled this kind of foolishness a long time ago? West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943) "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein."