TEXAS LEADERSHIP SUMMIT OCT. 8 AT BRENHAM HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
A faith-based organization in Washington County created to grow and equip leaders across the state will host a summit in Brenham.
The inaugural Texas Leadership Summit will be held on Saturday, October 8th from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Brenham High School Auditorium. The group seeks to build a network of people that can grow and lead in their faith.
Featured speakers at the summit will be Dr. Ben Carson, former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Kayleigh McEnany, former White House press secretary; Will Witt, political and cultural commentator from Prager University; Rick Scarborough, Christian political advocate and former Southern Baptist pastor; and Robert Unanue, CEO of Goya Foods.
Doors to the auditorium open at 8 a.m. Boxed lunches will be provided.
Tickets to the summit can be purchased online through October 7th at www.texasleadershipsummit.org.
There has to be a better place to train religious soldiers than a PUBLIC SCHOOL. Our country was founded on separation of church and state, in spite of what you might hear from this crowd. Want to hold a religious event? Use a church. Public schools are rightfully SECULAR. Otherwise, whose faith gets enshrined when political policy and religion combine? Which sect? Mixing religion with politics has predictable results. Few of them allow for anything like an open society or a functioning representative democracy. The beauty of this country is that we are all free to worship as we will, or not at all. That was an entirely new thing in the world when our Founding Fathers had the wisdom to enshrine the separation of church in our founding documents. There is no official religion in the United States and that is a good thing. If you value your freedom, fight tooth and nail to preserve the separation of church and state.
That is just your opinion and nothing more praying for you.
The actual words in the First Amendment of the Constitution read as follows: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”
Some guy named Thomas Jefferson said this about it:
“I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.”
-January 1, 1802
To add to that, if one is a “Constitutional Originalist”, Thomas Jefferson’s statement naming the Separation of Church and State makes the intent of Founders perfectly clear. There is to be no official religion in the United States of America. This is something I learned as a child in Brenham public schools as a child. As moldy, flooded and unsanitary as those facilities are these days, the lessons were true then as they are now. Facts are not opinions.
They are probably looking for a large event venue to hold this type of summit and not many places in town come to mind without having a ridiculous price tag for hosting or even being available. The auditorium has a capacity of roughly 2,500.
Money well spent to be able to attend this event. Something we can’t have enough of these days. Great leadership and role models of faith.