It's official, we are a Christian nation...

[Tim]

History has been rewritten and it will be in every history book your kids will read in school.

McLeroy is a robust, cheerful and inexorable man, whose personality is perhaps typified by the framed letter T on the wall of his office, which he earned as a “yell leader” (Texas A&M nomenclature for cheerleader) in his undergraduate days in the late 1960s. “I consider myself a Christian fundamentalist,” he announced almost as soon as we sat down. He also identifies himself as a young-earth creationist who believes that the earth was created in six days, as the book of Genesis has it, less than 10,000 years ago. He went on to explain how his Christian perspective both governs his work on the state board and guides him in the current effort to adjust American-history textbooks to highlight the role of Christianity. “Textbooks are mostly the product of the liberal establishment, and they’re written with the idea that our religion and our liberty are in conflict,” he said. “But Christianity has had a deep impact on our system. The men who wrote the Constitution were Christians who knew the Bible. Our idea of individual rights comes from the Bible. The Western development of the free-market system owes a lot to biblical principles.”

It's people like this who are on the Texas state board of education that determine what will be included, or dropped from the history books at school.

For McLeroy, separation of church and state is a myth perpetrated by secular liberals. “There are two basic facts about man,” he said. “He was created in the image of God, and he is fallen. You can’t appreciate the founding of our country without realizing that the founders understood that. For our kids to not know our history, that could kill a society. That’s why to me this is a huge thing.”

Last year they battle for and won the castration of the theory of evolution, now it's all about bringing Jesus into the text books.

 

[Tim]

And here is the whole article...

How Christian Were the Founders? - NYTimes.com

 

[itsmeJonB]

goddammit

 

[USF Sam]

*shudder*

Georgia will be next... right after they get done investigated how schools were faking standardized test results by correcting the tests taken by 5th grades before sending them to the State so that they can keep receiving tax dollars.

 

[Pabst]

*shudder*

Georgia will be next... right after they get done investigated how schools were faking standardized test results by correcting the tests taken by 5th grades before sending them to the State so that they can keep receiving tax dollars.

yay for standardized testing. the biggest educational failure till no child left behind came along.

 

[Alien Allen]

It all balances out. There are plenty of movements out there that want to shut down religion

I am guessing this must be a private school so they should be able to do what they want. If it was a state university that is another matter and I think there would be some constitutional issues.

 

[Dana]

He's a fucking quack although I do believe we've fallen a bit.

 

[hart]

He's a fucking quack although I do believe we've fallen a bit.

What do we mean we've fallen a bit?

 

[Dana]

Well we as a people aren't the greatest fucking presence on this Earth and it seems like it gets worse everyday.

 

[ClicheGuevara]

This is what we will be seeing in textbooks. .. Though AZ won't get them for another 20 years, since our school system is so broken.

 

[Tim]

It all balances out. There are plenty of movements out there that want to shut down religion

I am guessing this must be a private school so they should be able to do what they want. If it was a state university that is another matter and I think there would be some constitutional issues.

First, nobody is trying to shut down religion. I would love a good example of this.

Second, this is the Texas state board of education that is making this decision. Why is this important for you and me? Texas has the second largest board of education in the nation and they dictate to the text book companies what they want in the history books for their curriculum. The rest of the states then use these books for their state curriculum. So whatever Texas decides to do will effect the rest of the country. It's been this way since the late 70's.

 

[Minor Axis]

Christian Fundamentalists who want their religion to run our government are a huge threat to democracy and the basis upon which this country was founded.

 

[Tim]

Christian Fundamentalists who want their religion to run our government are a huge threat to democracy and the basis upon which this country was founded.

You're right, and christian fundamentalist are more of a threat to religion than any government run agency...

 

[Dana]

 

[satinbutterfly]

Christian Fundamentalists who want their religion to run our government are a huge threat to democracy and the basis upon which this country was founded.

:homo:

Most of my political beliefs are conservative, except when it comes to matters of religion and Christian fundamentalists who try to force their beliefs on everyone else in this country.

 

[Alien Allen]

First, nobody is trying to shut down religion. I would love a good example of this.

Second, this is the Texas state board of education that is making this decision. Why is this important for you and me? Texas has the second largest board of education in the nation and they dictate to the text book companies what they want in the history books for their curriculum. The rest of the states then use these books for their state curriculum. So whatever Texas decides to do will effect the rest of the country. It's been this way since the late 70's.

My bad

I speed read too much


Yes if this is coming from the head of the board of ed it is total bull shit and should be something to be concerned about


I do wish you would use this ratiionale for other things that come from CA.

So whatever Texas decides to do will effect the rest of the country.

 

[Peter Parka]

I personally think that anything taught in school should be facts and if it isn't, it should just be presented as a theory. Teaching fundamental Christian beliefs in school as facts when they are far from that is just stupid and I certainly wouldn't want any child of mine to go to a school with just a poor teaching record.

 

[GuesSAngel]

o land of the free lol. i would fight it on sending my kid to school learning, what i think is crap religion.