Separation of Church and State

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/magazine/14texbooks-t.html



Above is a link to a rather long article about the Texas State Board of Education and its' influence on the nation's textbooks. It turns out that the TSBE produces a set of guidelines for it's textbooks that, because of the size of the Texas school system, are widely adopted by almost all of the other school systems around the country. The problem, at least to my way of thinking, is that the TSBE has been over represented by Conservative Christian members, who are pushing their agenda, particularly in the areas of science, political science, and history. Their number one goal is to undermine the concept of separation of church and state.

Granted, we are, and have always been a predominately Christian nation, and our founding fathers who wrote the constitution were also Christian. That's all well and good, but the founding fathers also recognized that that religion and government should remain apart. The First Amendment to the Constitution reads as follows: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;" The founding fathers recognized the danger of the tyranny of the majority in this instance, just as they did by establishing a republic instead of a democracy.

What people in this country need to understand, particularly Christians, is that there are thousands of powerful and vocal Conservative Christians out there, who are intent upon turning our country into a theocracy, with the Conservative Christians in control. What better way to achieve this, than to control what our children are taught in school.

The article linked above goes into this in great detail, and I urge you to read it.