Today is the deadline to sponsor the Texas Freedom Network’s 13th Annual Celebration. All of the work we do — from battling religious extremists on the State Board of Education to defending religious freedom, civil liberties and public education in the Legislature — depends on the support we get from people who share these mainstream […]
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McCain and Obama at Saddleback Civil Forum this Saturday
This Saturday (August 16) Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain will speak at Rev. Rick Warren’s Saddleback Civil Forum. The presidential contenders will be interviewed separately by Warren on issues such as AIDS, poverty and social justice. As we noted earlier, this appearance by political candidates with an evangelical Christian leader is unique in that […]
Political Payback for Leininger
As we learn more about recipients of new grants under the state’s Dropout Recovery Pilot Program, it’s becoming clearer that one key political winner is James Leininger. Leininger, a San Antonio physician and businessman, is the state’s biggest financial backer of private school voucher schemes and a major donor to Gov. Rick Perry’s election campaigns. On Monday […]
More Truth-Stretching from the SBOE on Bible Classes
Texas Freedom Network has been taking fire from religious extremists on the State Board of Education for our stand on public school Bible classes. We have been very critical of the state board’s failure to adopt clear, specific curriculum standards to guide public schools in creating worthwhile, legal courses that don’t end up in court. In pieces published […]
Anti-Gay Westboro Baptist to Protest in Canada
The uber-far-right Westboro Baptist Church led by Fred Phelps never ceases to amaze: Canadian border guards are under orders to prevent members of a fundamentalist American church from crossing into Canada to protest at the Saturday funeral for a Winnipeg man brutally killed on a Greyhound bus last week. Westboro Baptist Church, a controversial Kansas-based […]
