Guardian UK: Texas schools board rewrites US history with lessons promoting God and guns

[marmar]

Texas schools board rewrites US history with lessons promoting God and guns
US Christian conservatives drop references to slave trade and sideline Thomas Jefferson who backed church-state separation

Chris McGreal, Houston
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 16 May 2010 17.19 BST


Cynthia Dunbar does not have a high regard for her local schools. She has called them unconstitutional, tyrannical and tools of perversion. The conservative Texas lawyer has even likened sending children to her state's schools to "throwing them in to the enemy's flames". Her hostility runs so deep that she educated her own offspring at home and at private Christian establishments.

Now Dunbar is on the brink of fulfilling a promise to change all that, or at least point Texas schools toward salvation. She is one of a clutch of Christian evangelists and social conservatives who have grasped control of the state's education board. This week they are expected to force through a new curriculum that is likely to shift what millions of American schoolchildren far beyond Texas learn about their history.

The board is to vote on a sweeping purge of alleged liberal bias in Texas school textbooks in favour of what Dunbar says really matters: a belief in America as a nation chosen by God as a beacon to the world, and free enterprise as the cornerstone of liberty and democracy.

"We are fighting for our children's education and our nation's future," Dunbar said. "In Texas we have certain statutory obligations to promote patriotism and to promote the free enterprise system. There seems to have been a move away from a patriotic ideology. There seems to be a denial that this was a nation founded under God. We had to go back and make some corrections." .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/16/texas-schools-rewrites-us-history

[HillbillyBob]

1. Just who the hell is going to save us from

the dominionists, talibabtists, teahadists, and just plain fuckedupnuts?

I am getting to really hate kreestians. I have enough experience that when some asshole starts spouting this shit im better of with them dying of lead poisoning. Mind ya own f king business and stay the hell off my doorstep.
They tried to bring Christ to my livin room then followed up with harassment, vandalism and threats, then tried to burn a cross against my house IE trying to burn my home down.

All you real Christians out there need to speak up and point out that all Christians are not Kreestians..the second kind are louder, more threatening and violent and are well armed and don't give a shit about anyone other than themselves. The claim we are all sinners but they are not..threatening someones life should fall under the sin column. Trying to burn my home and making judgments are also sins. So get your own house in order.

This Is NOT a Christian Country, this is the land of freedom to worship if you want. That does not mean you can camp out on my fucking door step to harass me every time I come or go.
Fair warning Do NOT come to my house.

[derby378]

2. You should check out this one guy named David Barton

Crackpot historian and total fundie. Started releasing books such as The Myth of Separation and Original Intent that supposedly proved the Founding Fathers wanted a theocracy and considered Thomas Paine a doodyhead. Actual historians started jumping up and down on Barton's "research," and Barton could very well have been relegated to an early retirement, except that George W. Bush was ushered into the White House, and Barton found himself Vice-President of the Republican Party of Texas.

Now his ideas and half-baked notions are warping people like Dunbar into spouting all this toxic mess that will scar our kids' minds unless we act quickly. Isn't this fun?

:mad:

[SpiralHawk]

4. "Smirk." - xCommander AWOL (R)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kC5MT2r5U8s/SQGWokkOOII/AAAAAAAAFZ8/eiyBOp60iac/s320/bush+dunce.jpg

[and-justice-for-all]

3. pure fucking insanity and delusion...

that nut sake ideology must be stopped.

[FBI_Un_Sub]

5. The return of the

Know Nothing Party where the Tea Baggers are the 21st Century reincarnation of the Know Nothings.