Texas conservatives are trying to drag the country to hell.
March 15th, 2010
Texas Conservatives Win Curriculum Change
AUSTIN, Tex. — After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism, questioning the Founding Fathers’ commitment to a purely secular government and presenting Republican political philosophies in a more positive light.
The vote was 10 to 5 along party lines, with all the Republicans on the board voting for it.
The board, whose members are elected, has influence beyond Texas because the state is one of the largest buyers of textbooks. In the digital age, however, that influence has diminished as technological advances have made it possible for publishers to tailor books to individual states.
Texas “conservatives” decided to rewrite history because they thought it was too liberal. Completely ignoring the fact that what is considered conservative and liberal are relative and always changing and what they consider liberal often isn’t.“We are adding balance,” said Dr. Don McLeroy, the leader of the conservative faction on the board, after the vote. “History has already been skewed. Academia is skewed too far to the left.”
Or your just a pseudo-conservative that considers anything that is not conservative enough to be liberal and communist.
There are seven members of the conservative bloc on the board, but they are often joined by one of the other three Republicans on crucial votes. There were no historians, sociologists or economists consulted at the meetings, though some members of the conservative bloc held themselves out as experts on certain topics.
How surprising. Idiots who think they know something. No, thats wrong. I apologize to all the idiots out there.
“I reject the notion by the left of a constitutional separation of church and state,” said David Bradley, a conservative from Beaumont who works in real estate. “I have $1,000 for the charity of your choice if you can find it in the Constitution.”
That statement alone shows that he is too stupid to even take care of him self and that he needs to placed in the care and custody of some one else.
“Separation of church and state” is the phrase we use to describe the separation of religion and government. It is clear to any one who has done at least 5 minutes of research on the subject that government and religion were intended to be separate. Or as the Treaty of Tripoli says “the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion;”Enough quoting; read the article.
So what did they add and take away? The took out Thomas Jefferson, they added the violent philosophy of the Black Panthers, the internment of Germans, Italians and Japanese as part of the Great Society legislation (in reality they had nothing to do with each other), defense of McCarthyism, replacing the word “capitalism” with “free-enterprise system” and more bull shit.
This will not only effect Texas, this will effect the whole country. Texas has the biggest school system in the country as result text book manufacturers use the Texas guidelines as the guidelines for the writing of all textbooks they make. As a result what happens in Texas effects every school in the country.
Categories: Belief, Church and State, I.D./Creationism, Politics, Pseudoscience, Religion, Stupid People, Stupidity
The Treaty of Tripoli quotation you mentioned, by Founding Father and second President of the United States, John Adams, who was there when it all began and really should have a little more first-hand knowledge regarding the intent of the Framers of the Constitution than our Mr. Bradley (above), actually said:
“The United States is in no sense founded on the Christian religion.”
– John Adams –
From the Treaty of Tripoli, 1797
On another occasion, he said:
“Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease, any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects?”
– John Adams –
In other words, once you let the mad dogs loose, ya never know who’s next –
And last, but not least:
“In the formation of the American government,…it will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of heaven.”
– John Adams –
Of course despite President Adams’ erstwhile words, we still have our friendly, resident lunatics, who maintain:
“I trust God speaks through me.”
– George W. Bush –
“Who says I am not under the special protection of God?”
– Adolph Hitler –
pax vobiscum,
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