Looks Like Bad History Is Winning Wins in Texas
At least we can agree on one thing: let's not rewrite history.
But that appears to be all that the wingnuts on the Texas State Board of Education want to do.
It all began when the board selected well-known radicl religious right troglodytes to sit on the six-member social studies curriculum review panel: David Barton of Wallbuilders and Peter Marshall of Peter Marshall Ministries. Barton, who has no credentials as a historian, runs a propaganda organization that issues a steady stream of books, videos, DVDs, pamphlets and other materials designed to "prove" the lie that the United States was founded to be christian country.
Update: Well, the wingnuts did it.
The Board removed Thomas Jefferson from the Texas curriculum, "replacing him with religious right icon John Calvin."
- The Board refused to require that "students learn that the Constitution prevents the U.S. government from promoting one religion over all others."
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Texas just got more stupid and a whole lot more ignorant!
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