Move Over Evolution, Texas Board of Education Has Other Enemies
Like what, you ask? History. Evolution smevolution. That’s just a piece; there’s a whole lot of recent history the Texas Board of Education would like to remove and alter.
If any question remains about the religious and political motivations of certain members of the Texas Board of Education, one need only read the words of their social studies curriculum experts.
Rev. Peter Marshall, for example, one of their appointed academic experts, wants to restore America, according to the website of his Massachusetts-based ministry, “to its Bible-based foundations through preaching, teaching, and writing on America’s Christian heritage and on Christian discipleship and revival.” He also believes that Hurricane Katrina, Watergate and the Vietnam War are the result of divine wrath.
And I could just as easily say that the events of the Holocaust displays there is no god. Hmm…
Marshall, along with his fellow reviewer David Barton, did not believe that students in the public education system should learn about Hutchinson:
Anne Hutchinson does not belong in the company of these eminent gentlemen. She was certainly not a significant colonial leader, and didn’t accomplish anything except getting herself exiled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for making trouble.” (emphasis added)
One of the original Puritans, Hutchinson disagreed with some of the scriptural teachings of the religious leaders and began hosting her own Bible study classes in her home. For this crime, Hutchinson was placed on trial and banished from her community. Later, she and her exiled family were killed in a Siwanoy attack.
This is indeed quite disturbing.
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Rather than Texans yelling, “Remember the Alamo!”, someone needs to yell, “Remember Dover!”
Federal Law finally realized that one can’t write over science with religion. One shouldn’t have the right to re-write over history with religion, either.
I keep thinking we would be better off if Texas actually did leave the union.
Wow that’s a very large brush to condemn Texans. By no means do all Texans agree with the Board of Education on evolution and large numbers of them see the need for Separation of Church and State.
I can only see another Dover case happening in Texas if they start trying to insert religion into schools and it will go exactly the same way.
John A:
“I can only see another Dover case happening in Texas if they start trying to insert religion into schools and it will go exactly the same way.”
Yep, that’s sort of what I was thinking. That’s why I posted the link a few comments ago. Well informed people will know about the outcome of the Dover case. I didn’t personally learn of it until recently. So maybe others don’t know the details.
So as for religion taking over history– there’s Federal president against it. So, the agenda of the religious won’t get too far.
As for discounting all of Texas in one swipe– I agree there, too. Most regions are variations of gray rather than black or white. Or perhaps various shades of “purple” as opposed to “red” states or “blue” states is an apt analogy.