Christian right aims to change history lessons in Texas schools

State's education board to consider adding Christianity's role in American history to curriculum

The Christian right is making a fresh push to force religion onto the school curriculum in Texas with the state's education board about to consider recommendations that children be taught that there would be no United States if it had not been for God. Members of a panel of experts appointed by the board to revise the state's history curriculum, who include a Christian fundamentalist preacher who says he is fighting a war for America's moral soul, want ... Full Story »

Posted by Dwight Rousu - via The Guardian
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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Jul 22, 2009 - 11:57 AM PDT
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Edited by: Dwight Rousu - Jul 23, 2009 - 6:33 PM PDT

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by Dwight Rousu - Jul. 23, 2009

Such efforts to officially flux the history lessons into absurd religiosity need to be reported, and it is done pretty disgustingly here.

Ye gods. Is there no end to arrogant ignorance?

“I don’t think anyone disputes that faith played a role in our history. But it’s a stretch to say that it played the role described by David Barton and ... More »

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by Tanya J. Maurer - Jul. 29, 2009

Should I admit my Texas background?

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by Kristi Nix - Sep. 20, 2009

The story does not seem completely balanced.

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