- 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'
- Early Voting Begins in Texas: Vote in State Board of Education Races
- Texas Ed Board Candidate Advocates Teaching Creationism in Science Classrooms
Monthly Archives: November 2010
Just Plain Embarrassing
The more he says, the worse he sounds. Last spring at a Glenn Beck/Tea Party rally in his hometown, state Rep. Leo Berman, R-Tyler, called President Obama “God’s punishment on us.” Then recently Rep. Berman filed a bill in the Texas Legislature that would require a presidential candidate to submit an original birth certificate before [...]
Posted in Leo Berman
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Job Opening: Communications Deputy
Are you a skilled writer, savvy researcher and supporter of the Texas Freedom Network’s mission? TFN has an opening for deputy communications director on our growing staff. Check out the job posting here.
Posted in Texas Freedom Network
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Elections Open Door to Radical Agendas
The Associated Press notes that the religious right is preparing to use the November elections to push a radical legislative agenda in states across the country starting in January. The religious right’s hit list includes women’s reproductive rights, embryonic stem cell research, divorce laws and equal rights for gay and lesbian Americans. The Texas Freedom [...]
Posted in abortion, LGBT issues, marriage, religious right, stem cells, Texas Legislature
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Tom DeLay: Guilty
From the Houston Chronicle: A Travis County jury today convicted former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Sugar Land, on two charges dealing with political money laundering. He faces the possibility of long prison sentences on both convictions. DeLay helped orchestrate the Republican takeover of the Texas House of Representatives in the 2002 election. From [...]
Posted in Tom DeLay
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Faith and Climate Change
We told you earlier this month that Texas Congressman Joe Barton, R-Ennis, could become chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee in January. Such a possibility worries climate scientists because Barton is hostile to efforts to reduce carbon emissions as a way of slowing global warming. For example, Barton bizarrely opposes even replacing the [...]
Posted in climate change, Congress
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Petty Politics at the SBOE
Just before each legislative session, the Texas State Board of Education votes on a list of education priorities they want state lawmakers to consider. With redistricting and closing a massive budget deficit likely to take up the bulk of the Legislature’s time, one would think that state board members would be careful in choosing their [...]
Posted in State Board of Education, Texas Legislature
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They Really Must Think Christians Are Stupid
Or maybe the lawyers at Liberty Institute — the Plano-based Texas affiliate of Focus on the Family — think Christians are just remarkably gullible. During the revision of social studies standards this year, for example, the group portrayed Texas teachers on the curriculum teams as anti-Christmas zealots who want to erase the holiday from their [...]
Posted in Liberty Institute, social studies
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Va. Baptists Defend Church-State Separation
We’re glad to see that many Virginia Baptists remain committed to their denomination’s traditional defense of separation of church and state. Associated Baptist Press reports that messengers to the Baptist General Association of Virginia (BGAV) last week “adopted a resolution decrying versions of American history that minimize or deny the role of church-state separation.” From [...]
Posted in church and state, religious freedom, religious right
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Turn Texas Universities over to the SBOE?!?!
It’s bad enough that politicians on the Texas State Board of Education have decided that promoting their own personal agendas is more important than the education of millions of children in public schools. Now a member of the Texas House of Representatives wants to give oversight of the state’s college and universities to the SBOE! [...]