The Texas Tea Party provides another good example of how David Barton’s poor scholarship (if you can call it scholarship) isn’t just bad for public education – it also fosters falsehoods and distortions throughout our civic life. One of the links on the Tea Party Web site asks: “What of our Christian Heritage?” Visitors then […]
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Olbermann Talks David Barton
MSNBC talk show host Keith Olbermann talked about “historian” David Barton this week with Rob Boston of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Seems that Barton is getting even more attention these days since he joined efforts to hijack the social studies curriculum in Texas to push his far-right ideological agenda. Check out […]
Barton’s Contempt for Religious Freedom
So did the nation’s Founders intend the Constitution to treat all Americans equally, regardless of their religion? A court brief recently filed by his Texas-based WallBuilders organization makes it pretty clear that David Barton doesn’t think so. WallBuilders, which opposes separation of church and state, has filed the brief in a federal appeals court that […]
Ask Him about the Nazis, David
David Barton, head of the Texas-based, Christian-right group WallBuilders, has an interesting guest for his Internet talk show this week. Barton will talk to Brad Dacus, head of the anti-gay Pacific Justice Institute in California. Dacus was a prominent support of Proposition 8, which in 2008 took away the right of gay and lesbian Californians […]
David Barton Gets Defensive — and Vicious
David Barton, the self-styled historian appointed by the Texas State Board of Education to a panel of curriculum “experts,” is angry with the Texas Freedom Network. In an e-mail to far-right activists last week, the founder of WallBuilders (a Christian-right organization that opposes separation of church and state) brands TFN as a member of the […]
