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Bradley: Education Is a ‘Religious Conflict’

By Dan | Published April 12, 2010
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So says Texas State Board of Education member David Bradley. Speaking on the Internet radio program WallBuilders Live! today, the Republican from Beaumont Buna in Southeast Texas told hosts David Barton and Rick Green that “conservatives” hold only a slim majority on the state board: “The pendulum in politics swings both ways and for the [...]

Posted in David Barton, David Bradley, religious right, State Board of Education | 12 Comments |


Talking Points

By TFN | Published April 12, 2010
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From today’s TFN News Clips: “The proposed changes have attracted national attention because they challenge the powerful ideology of the left and highlight the great political divide of our country. The left’s principles are diametrically opposed to our founding principles. The left believes in big, not limited, government; they empower the state, not the individual; they [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | 12 Comments |


Barbara Cargill Is Whitewashing History

By Dan | Published April 11, 2010
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Let’s revisit the success of Texas State Board of Education member Barbara Cargill, R-The Woodlands, in requiring social studies students to analyze Confederate President Jefferson Davis’s inaugural address. The Texas Education Agency has posted the revised American history curriculum standards (as of the January changes) here. The relevant standard for eighth-grade American history reads: “(A)nalyze [...]

Posted in Barbara Cargill, civil war, social studies, State Board of Education | 10 Comments |


Exposing the Discovery Institute

By Dan | Published April 10, 2010
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Among the most maddening things about the assault on science education — especially resistance to teaching public school students about evolution without watering it down with arguments rooted in junk science — is the rank dishonesty and religious bigotry that motivate anti-evolution extremists. In yet another excellent Huffington Post essay, Michael Zimmerman of the Clergy [...]

Posted in Discovery Institute, evolution | 27 Comments |


Talking Points

By TFN | Published April 9, 2010
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From today’s TFN News Clips: “If we do not do something, we will not have any Protestants in government.” – Oklahoma state Rep. Todd Russ, R-Cordell, sponsor of a bill on Bible classes in the state’s public schools. Cordell’s statement came after it was pointed out that only one member of the current U.S. Supreme Court [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | 14 Comments |


Does the SBOE Think Treason Is Patriotic?

By Dan | Published April 8, 2010
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The Texas State Board of Education‘s approval in January of a requirement that students study the ideas in the inaugural address of Confederate President Jefferson Davis hasn’t received a lot of attention. Far-right board member Barbara Cargill, R-The Woodlands, proposed that addition to the eighth-grade American history curriculum standards. In states that once made up the [...]

Posted in Barbara Cargill, civil war, social studies | 15 Comments |


Talking Points

By TFN | Published April 8, 2010
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From today’s TFN News Clips: “Here’s what we gotta realize as Christians, every student on every campus in this country that gets that philosophy of a godless Constitution — keep religion out of this political process and out of civil government — every one of those students is gonna impact you.” – Rick Green, who could [...]

Posted in elections, religious right, Texas politics | 5 Comments |


Brian Russell: Public Schools Hater

By Dan | Published April 8, 2010
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When Cynthia “Public Schools Are Tools of Perversion” Dunbar recruited Austin attorney Brian Russell to run for the seat she is vacating on the Texas State Board of Education, the obvious question was whether Russell shares her contempt for public education. We got a partial answer when it was revealed that Russell home-schools his kids. [...]

Posted in Cynthia Dunbar, public education, State Board of Education | 8 Comments |


Talking Points

By TFN | Published April 7, 2010
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From today’s TFN News Clips: “Forcing our schools to instruct children on how to utilize contraceptives encourages our children to engage in sexual behavior, whether as a victim or an offender. It is akin to teaching children about alcohol use, then instructing them on how to make mixed alcoholic drinks.” – Juneau County (Wisconsin) District Attorney [...]

Posted in religious right, sex education | 3 Comments |


Faith and Evolution: Redefining the Divide

By Dan | Published April 7, 2010
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Is the primary divide in the debate over teaching about evolution one between scientists and people of faith? No, writes the founder of the Clergy Letter Project, an organization that demonstrates that faith and science are not inherently at odds with each other. In his piece for Huffington Post, Michael Zimmerman writes that the real divide [...]

Posted in evolution, religious freedom, science and religion | 17 Comments |