future theocratic aims? The Texas Republicans revised U.S. History textbooks to promote conservatism:
1- Added disgraced anticommunist Joseph McCarthy stating Liberals lied about him, he was a hero. Of course most educated Americans remember Wisconsin Republican Joseph McCarthy who burst onto the national stage in the early 1950s with accusations that he had a list of names of known Communists in the federal government. He did not name them, (there were none) but McCarthy was censured by the Senate eventually and his name became synonymous with witch hunts — McCarthyism! A true Republican hero.
2- Added Republican Phyllis Schlafly, the anti-Equal Rights Amendment activist who said “almost everything about (Joseph) McCarthy in current history books is a lie and will have to be revised”. She also said “I submit to you that the feminist movement is the most dangerous, destructive force in our society today. [...] My analysis is that the gays are about 5% of the attack on marriage in this country, and the feminists are about 95%. [...] I’m talking about drugs, sex, illegitimacy, drop outs, poor grades, run away, suicide, you name it, every social ill comes out of the fatherless home.”
3- Added Confederate leader Jefferson Davis, who supported slavery and treason against the United States.
4- Added the Heritage Foundation, a right wing ‘think tank’ which supports faith-based initiatives, school vouchers, ban on abortion, overturning affirmative action programs are hostile to minorities and women, and push for upward distribution of wealth for the rich.
5- Added the Moral Majority, founded by Jerry Falwell who along with Pat Robertson, blamed the 9/11 terrorist attacks on “the Pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists and the gays and lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle.”
6- To avoid exposing students to “transvestites, transsexuals and who knows what else,” the Board struck the curriculum’s reference to “sex and gender as social constructs.”
7- The Board refused to require that “students learn that the Constitution prevents the U.S. government from promoting one religion over all others.”
8- The Board struck the word “democratic” from the description of the U.S. government, instead terming it a “constitutional republic.”
9- Removed Thomas Jefferson replacing him with religious right icon John Calvin. Of course they are too ignorant to know Calvinism led to only one denomination, and that denomination today is far from practicing the radical Calvinism as it conflicts severely with the current trappings of the religious right which emphasis the free choice aspects of salvation.
Additional Details
Republican want to Foster a new generation of Americans convinced of the thought that the U.S. Constitution permits a theocracy, state official religion, and religion in school. The aim of revision 7 is to mold a young constituency today for a future America that will contest and reinterpret the Constitution to allow just that. Eliminating the separation of church and state.
What bothers me about this is that it is unconstitutional. And what makes it worst is the type of Christianity that they wish to force on future America. A complete distortion of the gospel to coincide with their twisted political ideology.
1- Added disgraced anticommunist Joseph McCarthy stating Liberals lied about him, he was a hero. Of course most educated Americans remember Wisconsin Republican Joseph McCarthy who burst onto the national stage in the early 1950s with accusations that he had a list of names of known Communists in the federal government. He did not name them, (there were none) but McCarthy was censured by the Senate eventually and his name became synonymous with witch hunts — McCarthyism! A true Republican hero.
2- Added Republican Phyllis Schlafly, the anti-Equal Rights Amendment activist who said “almost everything about (Joseph) McCarthy in current history books is a lie and will have to be revised”. She also said “I submit to you that the feminist movement is the most dangerous, destructive force in our society today. [...] My analysis is that the gays are about 5% of the attack on marriage in this country, and the feminists are about 95%. [...] I’m talking about drugs, sex, illegitimacy, drop outs, poor grades, run away, suicide, you name it, every social ill comes out of the fatherless home.”
3- Added Confederate leader Jefferson Davis, who supported slavery and treason against the United States.
4- Added the Heritage Foundation, a right wing ‘think tank’ which supports faith-based initiatives, school vouchers, ban on abortion, overturning affirmative action programs are hostile to minorities and women, and push for upward distribution of wealth for the rich.
5- Added the Moral Majority, founded by Jerry Falwell who along with Pat Robertson, blamed the 9/11 terrorist attacks on “the Pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists and the gays and lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle.”
6- To avoid exposing students to “transvestites, transsexuals and who knows what else,” the Board struck the curriculum’s reference to “sex and gender as social constructs.”
7- The Board refused to require that “students learn that the Constitution prevents the U.S. government from promoting one religion over all others.”
8- The Board struck the word “democratic” from the description of the U.S. government, instead terming it a “constitutional republic.”
9- Removed Thomas Jefferson replacing him with religious right icon John Calvin. Of course they are too ignorant to know Calvinism led to only one denomination, and that denomination today is far from practicing the radical Calvinism as it conflicts severely with the current trappings of the religious right which emphasis the free choice aspects of salvation.
Additional Details
Republican want to Foster a new generation of Americans convinced of the thought that the U.S. Constitution permits a theocracy, state official religion, and religion in school. The aim of revision 7 is to mold a young constituency today for a future America that will contest and reinterpret the Constitution to allow just that. Eliminating the separation of church and state.
What bothers me about this is that it is unconstitutional. And what makes it worst is the type of Christianity that they wish to force on future America. A complete distortion of the gospel to coincide with their twisted political ideology.