KPFT Pacifica Radio in Houston (90.1 FM) is dealing with some technical issues, but tonight’s State Board of Education (SBOE) forum is still set for 6 p.m. If you can’t get the station over the air, you can listen online at kpft.org or through the KPFT Apple iPhone app. Tonight’s forum features candidates for the […]
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Right-wing Group Trying to Drag Churches into Partisan Politics
The Alliance Defense Fund is rallying far-right pastors around an effort to overturn a more than 60-year-old federal law that limits houses of worship and other tax-exempt nonprofits from participating in partisan election campaigns. ADF and pastors like Steve Riggle of Houston and Jim Garlow of San Diego are calling on clergy to protest the […]
TFN’s Kathy Miller Talks about New Documentary on the Texas SBOE
Austin’s KVUE-TV has a story this evening about “The Revisionaries,” the new documentary focusing on the Texas State Board of Education that premiered this weekend at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. Texas Freedom Network President Kathy Miller talked to KVUE about how the state board has put politics and personal agendas ahead of […]
San Antonio Event on Saturday Celebrates the First Amendment
The Rev. Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, will present the keynote address at a First Amendment Day Celebration on Saturday in San Antonio. Texas Freedom Network staff members will be at the event as well — so come by our booth to say hello. AU’s San Antonio […]
‘Reality by majority vote’
Key moment from last night’s Colbert Report interview with Don “Somebody’s gotta stand up to experts” McLeroy? That probably came when host Stephen Colbert asked the former Texas State Board of Education chairman who decides what information gets into textbooks: Colbert: “I imagined that experts wrote textbooks, but in fact it gets voted on at […]
