Christian right aims to change history lessons in Texas schools

State's education board to consider adding Christianity's role in American history to curriculum

The Christian right is making a fresh push to force religion onto the school curriculum in Texas with the state's education board about to consider recommendations that children be taught that there would be no United States if it had not been for God.

Members of a panel of experts appointed by the board to revise the state's history curriculum, who include a Christian fundamentalist preacher who says he is fighting a war for America's moral soul, want lessons to emphasise the part played by Christianity in the founding of the US and that religion is a civic virtue.

Opponents have decried the move as an attempt to insert religious teachings in to the classroom by stealth, similar to the Christian right's partially successful attempt to limit the teaching of evolution in biology lessons in Texas.

"Christian right aims to change history lessons in Texas schools"
Chris McGreal in Washington
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 22 July 2009 18.28 BST
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Hey, you skeptics, atheists, critical thinkers, historians, and anyone with a brain in Texas, please get on this and slap some sense into these twits! Srsly, ppl. Look, while I admit there were likely many American colonists who were Christians who helped in the fight for independence and some even helped form and run our new government, they were not all Christian and furthermore who do we need to even mention the "role of faith" in the revolution? Separation of church and state mean just that, including schools. If you really want that angle, that's why there's religious-based private schools. Funny thing is most Catholic school give a better education of evolution and other subjects than public schools... but I digress. The point is this is just another attempt to put God (the Christian verity) into public schools and that is just not right. Some of these idiots needs to read the Jefferson Bible before spouting this crap. If we are gonna do this, what about the help through faith of other religions? I know such things happened so why not praise those efforts, too? Oh, wait, those religious faiths are false? Well, no more false than the Christian type...