TFN President Condemns Board’s Passage of Anti-Islam Resolution FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 24, 2010 Today the Texas State Board of Education voted 7-6 to adopt a resolution attacking Islam and calling on publishers to stop writing what the resolution falsely claims are social studies textbooks with an anti-Christan/pro-Islamic bias. Texas Freedom Network President Kathy Miller […]
As the Texas State Board of Education prepares to join in on the anti-Muslim hostility roiling the country, it is worth noting that many interfaith groups are stepping up their efforts to correct the misinformation and slander circulating about Islam. There are a number of interfaith endeavors scheduled in central Texas in the coming days […]
Gail Lowe, chair of the Texas State Board of Education, is making the rounds promoting the state’s new social studies curriculum standards. And she’s making clear the political agenda she and other far-right board members are promoting in those standards: “Our country was founded on religious principles … and our students will know that. . […]
Read it before they’re finally embarrassed enough to remove it from their blog. The right-wing group Liberty Institute today apparently decided that civility is beneath them. In a sneering and insulting Internet post, the group attacked faith leaders who today called on the State Board of Education to respect religious freedom and tolerance, referring to […]
Clergy Condemn Proposed Anti-Islam Resolution Interfaith Group Releases Open Letter Calling on the State Board of Education to Reject Inflammatory Measure FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 20, 2010 An interfaith group today released an open letter from Texas religious leaders calling on the State Board of Education to reject a proposed resolution that attacks Islam and […]
