- Texas Ed Board Candidate Doubles Down on 'Pilgrims Were Communists' Claim
- More From Ed Board Candidate Spurlock: No Sex Ed, Kids 'Are Gonna Figure It Out on Their Own' Anyway
- Former Texas Ed Board Creationist Don McLeroy on Colbert Report Tonight
- Former Texas SBOE Member: Opposition to Teaching Creationism in Science Classrooms Is Like 'Pre-Holocaust Germany'
- Texas Ed Board Candidate Advocates Teaching Creationism in Science Classrooms
- Early Voting Begins in Texas: Vote in State Board of Education Races
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Have Truer Words Been Spoken?
Perhaps Texas State Board of Education member Don McLeroy is finally getting close to the truth. “There is nothing conservative about what we did in English. Nothing conservative about what we did in science,” McLeroy said of the board’s record.
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TFN Youth Leaders Speak Up for Sex Ed
A Texas Freedom Network Education Fund report last year revealed the dismal state of sex education in Texas. Now TFN’s Youth Leadership Council has collected thousands of petition signatures from young people around the state who support responsible sex education in our public schools. Check out this video of a Youth Leadership Council event on the [...]
Posted in sex education
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Talking Points
From today’s TFN News Clips: “Rosa Parks did not move to the front of the bus to support sodomy.” – Barb Davis White, a Tea Party activist and Republican candidate for Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District, testifying before a legislative committee contemplating the legalization of same-sex marriage in the state Stay informed with TFN News Clips, a [...]
Posted in LGBT issues, tea party
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SBOE Campaign Finance Data Updated
We have updated campaign finance information reported by Texas State Board of Education candidates.
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The Religious Right’s Secret Candidate ‘Forum’
If anyone needs more evidence that the religious right’s ringleaders see voters as sheep, we present a new exhibit: Rev. Rick Scarborough’s secret candidate-screening in East Texas. Scarborough, head of the Lufkin (Texas)-based group Vision America, orbits the fringes of the far right. For example, he’s a “birther” who doubts President Obama was truly born [...]
Posted in elections, religious right
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Standing Tall for Science in Texas
The National Center for Science Education has named three distinguished university scholars in Texas as the recipients of the organization’s 2010 Friend of Darwin award for their efforts last year to promote sound science education in public schools. Prof. Gerald Skoog of Texas Tech, Prof. David Hillis of the University of Texas at Austin and Prof. [...]
Posted in evolution
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Talking Points
From today’s TFN News Clips: “A movement seeking limited government will never succeed if it continually limits the importance of self-government and moral values.” – Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, joining a chorus of complaints from the religious right that the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has become too “libertarian” and not sufficiently focused on [...]
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Talking Points
From today’s TFN News Clips: “The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion with handicaps has increased dramatically. Why? Because when you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children. In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to [...]
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Money Flows to Far-Right SBOE Candidates
FEB. 25 UPDATE: Campaign finance reports for Democrats seeking the District 5 seat on the Texas State Board of Education are now available. See below for the new numbers. Rebecca Bell-Metereau continues to build a large fundraising lead over her opponents for the Democratic nomination. We have also updated finance numbers from a corrected finance [...]
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Republican SBOE Candidates Duke It Out
Republican candidates for Cynthia Dunbar’s District 10 Texas State Board of Education seat met over the weekend at a public forum in Georgetown. It appears that evolution and sex education were among the hottest topics of discussion, according to the online Williamson County Conservative Examiner. (Hat tip to TFN Insider reader abb3w for calling this to our [...]
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