Texas is still at it

Not exactly. It prohibits government establishment of religion.

Show me.

Not true.

You're free to believe what you want.

Can you define "socialist poison."

Can you explain how it does this.

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Actually being substantially younger then you I can vouch for the fact schools still place great emphasis on the revolution and founding of America. Can't help it if kids don't give a shit anymore.

Also there's more than enough evidence to point to the fact a good deal of the founding fathers while religious were deists. Evangelical conservatives try to say the founding fathers were Christian and founded this nation on Christian beliefs, which is empirically false.

And no, the best way for a country to be free is you stop pushing your morals about theology on people.

 

The US Constitution prohibits establishment of a state religion, In the way that Her Britianic Majesty, Queen Elizabeth is Defender of The Faith. The Anglican Faith is the state religion in The UK.

The term: separation of church and state is not in The US Constitution.

 

From a legal standpoint though you can't mix state and religion without setting up some form of de facto state religion as it would be impossible to given equal footing to all religions. This is why separation of church and state both practically in people's minds and legally has come to mean what it does.

 

The meaning today is as it was intended, it just took almost 200 years to be implemented.

http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/speakout/pfeffer.html

 

Says the guy whos signature image seems to imply that the vietnam war was in the name of freedom.

 

Everyone knows it was a war for control of the Laos Oil fields.

 

It was a war where we got left holding the french bag.

Ho Chi Minh should have been our ally, and easily could have been, in his inaugeration he quoted the american declaration of independance, thomas jefferson was his hero, what with his nation of yeoman farmers.

Instead, we intervened where it was not our place to do so, on behalf of the last gasp of a crumbling colonial empire that had no fucking buisness in "french indochina". Oh, and then we made up some bullshit about the scary commies, cause you KNOW those rice farmers where building nukes....

On this note, the most recent family guy is well worth a watch.

 

texas is at the bottom of everything in the u.s.a.
it flip flops with missisippi, for being the worst state in the union.

i have never understood, why in the hell, the people of the south are so damn proud, to be like the proverbial "pigs happy in shit!":svengo:

i spent the first 10 years of my life in duluth, minnesota.
i also, spent 17 years living in seattle, washington.
NEVER ONCE, HAVE I SEEN THE LEVEL OF STUPIDITY IN EITHER OF THOES CITIES OR STATES!:cheers2:
oh, sure, there was some stupidity in those places too but, NEVER, ANYTHING, TO MATCH THE ASTRONOMICAL LEVELS THERE ARE, IN TEXAS AND THE REST OF THE SOUTH!

well, i work for the aclu (american civil liberties union) and, we have started the wheels in motion here, in texas, to overturn this shit going down with the textbooks.
right now, it looks like we will win on this matter.
keep your fingers crossed and, keep us in your thoughts on this matter... this looks like it will get quite nasty!

 

I just escaped texas high school, but among college professors at least, last semester I saw a lot of dissent about re writing history, especially (predictably) from my history professor and political science professor.

Though I hated the class, in high school in texas, I did spend a massive amount of time going over the founding of the US, and even encountered terms like jeffersons wall, it was a remarkably balanced course for the "lone star state". Though this might have something to do with the fact that I took online courses to catch up, I don't know what they taught in person.

it was a horrible conservative school that blatantly spat in the constitutions face, doing things like trying to force people to say the pledge and forcing my to cut my hair, but they did, for the most part, have acceptable course material. And of course, I had a few excellent teachers.

 

As a Texan in high school [graduate next week finally], i will admit our education system can be pretty retard. but i must point out this thread is an EPIC FAIL

exhibit A

generalizing a couple million people as small minded and ignorant because of a few ?

ok thats not hypocritical...

 

Fuck people from the north who say fuck the south.

Fuck southern politics.

 

i dont see what you're getting at

 

But no really, as a northern I say fuck the south. I mean fuck the north too, but seriously fuck the south.

 

*facepalm*

 

According to the news reports that I heard, the people on this committee who made the decisions to rewrite the textbooks were elected. Unless Texas is different, this means the majority of voters chose the people who made these decisions. That would be more than a "few."

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And aside from that, how many people on here do you see going "I dun vote, itz 4 suckerz and dont change anyting aneway"

 

What ever happened to the 3 R's?

 

Isn't that what Texas is trying to put back in the schools, Racism, Resegregation and Religion (that ol' time religion).

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Anyone else want to try and take a guess on what the 3 R's were?