Because Texas won’t teach History the public will need to read about it online.
1925, Judge John Raulston gaveled to order The State of Tennessee vs. John Thomas Scopes in the Rhea County Courthouse in Dayton, Tenn. Popularly known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, the case was initiated after high school teacher John Scopes knowingly defied Tennessee’s recently passed Butler Act, which issued a statewide ban against the teaching of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution that the 19th century scientist outlined in On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man. Prosecuting the case on behalf of Tennessee was famed orator, three-time presidential candidate and avowed Christian fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan. Scopes’s defense was led by the sharp-minded lawyer, early American Civil Liberties Union ally and staunch agnostic Clarence Darrow.
Trump claims credit for the end of Roe v. Wade “I was able to get us to the table by terminating Roe v. Wade. That’s the most important thing that’s ever happened for the pro-life movement,” Trump told The Messenger, “Nobody could have done it but me.
TEXAS
WARNING: Christian nationalists are backing legislation that would force religion into schools by framing it through the lens of school safety. The blame the establishment clause — and a lack of religious teachings — for school shootings and rising crime.
The First Amendment forbids government from promoting one religion over others, but Texas Republicans are trying to force schools to display Ten Commandments, which they don’t even abide by, in every classroom.
Texas can now replace masters level school counselors with chaplains.
Chaplains complete a 48 hour class equivalent to a one credit college course.
Two Patriot Mobile endorsed (Christofascist) candidates won school board seats in Grapevine-Colleyville, Texas. #Christofascism #txlege
#ChristianNationalism and apparently they’re using “school security and safety funds” to pay for these chaplains.
Concerned Parent in North Texas praises new Texas Senate Bill 763 that stops indoctrination in public schools by forcing in uncertified chaplains paid for with safety and security funding!
“Taken together, they all were designed to really thwart Brown.” The #SchoolVouchers push has its roots in the fight against desegregation.
It’s no coincidence the Texas GOP is waging war on public schools. Minorities have become the majority; the push to implement vouchers and charters is a way to siphon off money from our ISDs to alienate and marginalize minorities.
Christian nationalist extremists (shown in red), won some school board races in Texas, but they lost many more than they won. The good citizens of Texas are waking up to the threat of Christian nationalism and saying, “Hell, no.” #txlege https://twitter.com/frankstrong/status/1655202418441822211
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Important article — shows how Big Oil is looking to cash in on #ClimateCrisis by offering “solutions” in the form of costly, low capacity carbon capture programs that they will operate and profit from. So, make CO2 by selling/burning oil/gas/coal (ka-ching!). And then capture a little of that #CO2 and charge govts the tab (ka-ching!).
Logic professor on how Big Oil’s PR people constantly divert us from focusing on the truly important climate change question: “how can we stop the fossil-fuel industry from destroying the life-sustaining systems of the planet in their quest for profit?”