It appears that Texas State Board of Education member David Bradley, R-BeaumontBuna, is hoping religious bigotry will help him win re-election. The 12-year incumbent is circulating a flier that suggests his Democratic opponent, Laura Ewing of Friendswood, wants to — pass the smelling salts, please — teach social studies students about Islam. The flier explains that Ewing joined other […]
TFN Insider welcomes guest blogger Dr. Steve Sprinkle , director of The Unfinished Lives Project and associate professor of practical theology of at Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth. A near brush with anti-gay hate crime in the late 1990’s in Fort Worth shocked me awake to the reality of violence against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, […]
News about the battle in Texas between creationists and supporters of sound science in public schools has now reached the pages of Daily Kos. The progressive mega-blog takes aim at Don McLeroy, a Bryan dentist and creationist who serves as the Texas State Board of Education‘s chairman: An exciting, recent fossil find suggest Texas was a hotbed of […]
Is understanding of evolution “vital” to the understanding of biology? No. That nugget of nonsense comes from Don McLeroy, a Bryan dentist who serves as chairman of the Texas State Board of Education. McLeroy was writing about the debate over teaching evolution in a column for the Waco Tribune-Herald this weekend. McLeroy says he and other creationists don’t […]
The anti-evolution Discovery Institute is accusing the Texas Freedom Network of going on a hypocritical “rant.” Last week TFN criticized the Texas State Board of Education‘s inclusion of three creationists on a six-member panel that will review science curriculum standards for the state’s public schools. All three are supporters of “intelligent design”/creationism, which Discovery promotes as […]
