SCHOOL books..

"Conservatives put stamp on Texas textbooks
New social studies curriculum stresses religion over evolution"

I hope this URL remains good

First 2 paragraphs:

"AUSTIN, Texas - A far-right faction of the Texas State Board of Education succeeded Friday in injecting conservative ideals into social studies, history and economics lessons that will be taught to millions of students for the next decade.

Teachers in Texas will be required to cover the Judeo-Christian influences of the nation's Founding Fathers, but not highlight the philosophical rationale for the separation of church and state. Curriculum standards also will describe the U.S. government as a "constitutional republic," rather than "democratic," and students will be required to study the decline in value of the U.S. dollar, including the abandonment of the gold standard. "

Some know that I try to stay in the position of supporting everyone's right to believe and think for themselves, but I am also on record as objecting **strongly** to having such conservative, religious-based ideas IMPOSED on everyone else!
We all know that Texas is a bastion of such attitudes, but it is also becoming a poster-state for limitation of that hallowed idea of 'state's rights'...............