I find it interesting, though, that so many tolerant, understanding people from around the country want to throw us out instead of trying to help us. I agree the influence this state has over text book publishers is unfair. Talk to the publishers!! Scream at the publishers! Money talks. Believe me there are people here screaming at the text book review boards. Unfortunately, the fundamentalists seems to have the upper hand right now.

Oh, and those of you who feel Christianity was the most important thing to the Founding Fathers, I think you should really read your history. They created this country so there would be separation of church and state, and there would be freedom of religion. They did NOT say that Christianity was the state religion.

I love the way some of you think the Federal government owns everything of value here. If you throw Texas out of the country, the U.S. won’t own those assets anymore.

So, would you like the United States armed forces to invade Texas and make it a protectorate instead of a state?? That’s very democratic and really follows the intent of the Constitution.

Texas has problems, we know that. There are a lot of people here trying to change things.

I wish there weren’t people here who do these crazy things that bring every thinking person in the country down on us. There’s really a lot of good here, but do you think anyone else in the country believes that? All they hear are the ridiculous actions of deluded people. I don’t think Texas has a monopoly on stupidity, but it sure gets publicized.

Since Texas is responsible for the textbooks that the rest of the country has to use in public schools, for the reasons discussed in this article, is it possible for the people in other states to sue Texas for attempting to force unconstitutional education requirements on the children of not only their state, but the entire country?

Even better, if we, as a country, voted to kick Texas out of the Union, would that stick?

Don’t take this as a joke, because I’m dead serious. They have no right to dictate to the rest of the country what children are taught in public schools. If they want to indoctrinate their own children, that’s their problem. Forcing religious education and the teaching of republican values in public schools all over the states is exemplary of Texas WAY overstepping its bounds.

I’m also not joking about kicking them out of the Union. They are useless, and keep proving it. Everything they have that they brag about belongs to the federal government (oil in the gulf, NASA, military bases, the enormous military contracts that are awarded Texas companies), and the rest of us would be thrilled to death if they all just went away. Side note – all rational Texans (though I question your sanity if you still live their voluntarily…but we can talk about it) are free to come to the US before we close off the border. No sense sending intelligent, decent people away to live with the bleeding morons who think they can do whatever they want and drag the rest of the country down with them because they’re Texans, by god. Idiots.

This is how I know god doesn’t exist. If he did, Texas would have been swallowed up by a giant gaping fissure long before they had the chance of fu(k everything up for everyone else.

Think of all the benefits that would have for careers in statue reading and being proficient at knowing Super Bowls!

The school system provides and parents takes’th away.

I assume this move is to enhance the educational system in Texas that produced this President.

Most of the founders were clearly Christians.

At the time Unitarians were a branch of Protestantism.

I can think of only one Deist who is considered a founding father and he didn’t sign any of the founding documents.

I am curious to know just which of the founders you consider to be a pantheist?

If they are gonna emphasize the Christian religion and its role in the foundation of the USA, will they note that many of the founding fathers were Unitarians, Deists, and even one which could possibly be considered a pan-theist ?
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Will they also explain the influence the Christian religion had in making slavery acceptable for the first 100 years of the country’s existence?

Or how it helped justify taking the so-called “American Indians” land from them, or treating women like chattel instead of human beings?

The City on the Hill… Indeed!

***TRoS spits on ground…***

I congratulate you. You are the only person here who has called out RHF for his extremely profane and abusive comments.

His kind of comments have no place here and clearly violate TP’s terms of use.

Don’t be so easy on him.

If they are gonna emphasize the Christian religion and its role in the foundation of the USA, will they note that many of the founding fathers were Unitarians, Deists, and even one which could possibly be considered a pan-theist ?

I get them dropping Lincoln (after all, he freed the slaves), but dropping both the Father of our Country and the Father of Texas ?

What are Peter Marshall’s credentials for curriculum development ?

Civil Rights aren’t important ? Wonder if that has something to do with the possibility of them Latino’s demanding equality ?

Teaching Republican Values ? Technically they may possibly have a point. But first they’d have to understand that we are a republic form of govt and that form of govt places limits on the ability of one group to use its numbers to tyrannize another group.

… but as Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh have demonstrated so successfully they only understand BATSH*T CRAZY…

Too true.

I’ve been lurking around here for sometime but rarely post and I’m very aware of how The Performance Artist Known As Daryll/LookToTheHills/RaptureReady operates. He spouts his usual anti-gay religious bent while ignoring all facts then runs away to “shake off the Devil” (what a thread that was!).

Thanks. And I would appreciate it if you could turn down the vitriol towards the trolls and use a little more civil tone. They make me want to scream too, but we don’t want to sound like Glenn Beck going nuts.

Thanks.

Evolution, gays/lesbians, and pre-marital sex can be advocated in schools, but children cannot learn about Jesus? Isn’t this biased.

Homesexuality and pre-martial sex is not advocated at schools. They are merely taught not to be intolerant of “teh gay” and to take precautions if they so choose to no longer abstain from sex.

Evolution, on the other hand, is a proven fact that should be taught rather than that your fairy daddy poofed everything into existence 6000 years ago.