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 […]
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Hope, Not Hate
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, […]
Spreading the Word about Science, Evolution and Texas
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 […]
SBOE Chairman: Evolution Isn’t Important
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 […]
Creationist Group Strikes Out Again
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 […]
