Right-wingers spent a lot of time talking about public schools in Texas this year. That’s because the State Board of Education adopted new social studies textbooks for Texas public schools. The new textbooks are based on curriculum standards the board adopted in 2010. Those standards were so controversial that even the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute […]
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2014 in Quotes: The War on Women
Sexism. Misogyny. Abortion. When it came to women and issues like reproductive rights, here’s some of what we heard from the far right in 2014. Click here to read more quotes from the right in 2014. “We already have, ladies and gentlemen, I don’t know how many museums for women all over the country. They are called […]
2014 in Quotes: The Real War on Religious Freedom
Our review of what we heard from the right in 2014 continues. Today: religious-righters continued their attacks on separation of church and state and other protections for religious freedom throughout the year. Click here to read more quotes from the right in 2014. “But it was to be a one-way wall, where the state would not dictate […]
2014 in Quotes: LGBT Equality and Semen-Flavored Coffee
As legal recognition for same-sex marriage came to state after state this year (but not Texas, unfortunately), the right exploded in fury — with overheated rhetoric that alternated between ridiculous and nakedly bigoted. Here’s what we heard from the right in 2014 about LGBT equality. Click here to read more quotes from the right in 2014. “My suspicion […]
2014 in Quotes: The War on Science
It’s time for the Texas Freedom Network’s review of the nonsense we heard from the far right this year. We’ll take up a different subject each day. Today: The right’s war on science — especially on climate science and the teaching of evolution — roared onward in 2014. Click here to read quotes from the right […]
