If your child attends a public school purportedly teaching the Bible from a non-sectarian perspective, be sure to read this report by the Texas Freedom Network. Texas beat back the creationists at the state level, but the Texas Taliban are charging full speed ahead in Odessa. These battles really are so depressing. There is a sound moral case for religious liberty, but there is an even sounder case for keeping religious practice strictly in the private sphere. Why in a country that affords quite extraordinary accomodations to private religious observance do at least some believers feel the need to forcefeed their predilections down the throats of other people's children?
Well, I suppose we know the answer, but it involves two words ("fascist" and "theocracy") that, shall we say, agitate the self-deceived. This article is perhaps unusually clear about what these folks are really after. God help us!
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