The Texas Freedom Network Education Fund is proud to co-sponsor with Equality Texas Foundation a special Equality Project Training opportunity for Central Texas activists on June 16 in La Grange. Equality Project is a public education and civic engagement program on policy issues related to the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) citizens […]
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Texas SBOE Says ‘No’ to Dolores Huerta, POTUS Says ‘Heck Yeah’
Thought we’d share a photo from our Facebook page. Once shunned by the Texas State Board of Education, Dolores Huerta last month became a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. […]
David Barton’s Theory: The Bible Will Get You Off Welfare!
Our friends at Right Wing Watch have this little nugget from David Barton’s WallBuilders Live! show yesterday: Wouldn’t it be interesting to do a study between those that are on welfare and see how much and how often they read the Bible. You know, if Booker T. Washington is right that Christianity and reading the […]
Louisiana Abandons Public Schools, Shifts $Millions to Private and Religious Schools
Because of a lot of hard work by the Texas Freedom Network, our partners in the Coalition for Public Schools, and pro-public education lawmakers, the Texas Legislature has never passed a private school voucher scheme that would drain hundreds of millions of dollars from already cash-strapped neighborhood public schools. But taxpayers in neighboring Louisiana will […]
Science Doesn’t Back Claims That Emergency Contraception Drugs Cause Abortion
You can bank on this: the right’s war on contraception is about to become another front — along with attacks on evolution and evidence on climate change — in the broader war on science. For years religious-right groups have insisted that pharmacists who oppose abortion should have the right to refuse to dispense emergency contraception […]
