Sean Faircloth of Secular Coalition for America: Tell Congress to Stand Up For Fact-Based Education

Tell Your Representative to Stand Up For Fact-Based Education

http://action.secular.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4621

By now, you've probably heard about the Texas State Board of Education's moves to impose educational standards into its textbooks intended to indoctrinate Texas public school students with a telling of U.S. history that is based in extremist religious ideology.

You've probably also heard about some of the more jaw-dropping proposed changes to the curriculum, such as booting Thomas Jefferson off of a list of influential thinkers in place of explicitly religious figures, and the baseless and totally fabricated assertion that our system of government is based specifically on the laws of Moses. This comes from the same group of theocrats who famously fought to undermine evolution in science classes and delete from science textbooks the scientific consensus on the age of the universe because they conflict with the Bible.

As terrible as this religious imposition is for Texas students, all Americans have reason to fear. Due to the size of the Texas textbook market (and because other highly populated states do not use statewide textbook contracts in the say way), the backward dictates of its theocratic school board effect textbooks used by public school students all across the country.

Someone in Congress is finally standing up to this abuse of power and unconstitutional overreach by the religious extremists on the Texas State Board of Education. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (T-DX) recently introduced a resolution (H. Res. 1593) that supports fact-based curricula in public schools without meddling by those with an avowed religious bias. Students in Texas and all across America need to know that Congress wants them to have an education based on facts and science, not myth and religious bias.

TAKE ACTION NOW: Watch the video message above from Secular Coalition for America Executive Director Sean Faircloth supporting Rep. Johnson's resolution, and then tell your member of Congress to become a co-sponsor.

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[sleach060689]

@melglen1 because if they keep the stupid stupid, and we maintain democracy, then it gets votes.

[melglen1]

why are american political parties so influenced by bogus ancient views of religious nutcases

[dolliemonteleone]

I wonder why I keep coming back to your page, such a nice channel!

[vandecraats]

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[Hercules2345]

Everyone should read this article and pass it around:

Were George Washington and Thomas Jefferson Jesus Mythicists?

truthbeknown. com /washington-jefferson-mythicis­ts. html

[Rhacman]

@ananiasacts This reasoning would only be valid assuming that such persons did in fact spend time daydreaming, as you say, rather than influencing public policy, as they in fact do. Additionally, I don't think it benefits society to simply disregard religious individuals. These are people who we know and love and who participate in the community in positive ways. That said, as far as education goes the only thing that belongs in the classroom are facts based on objectively based reasoning.

[Lukegamer]

A resolution to enforce FACT-based (aka supported by a preponderance of scientific evidence) education should never have been necessary in any country that remotely cares about it's children and it's future. We've become a larger disgrace than I care to admit sometimes, I only hope that sanity will prevail in the long run, given a little help. Either that or reality will take over and enforce itself in a rather brutal way, as can be seen in any FACT-based history book.

[ananiasacts]

It is possible that we're wrong about what religion is and why we have it. Suppose someone had an idea that had greater appeal to "emotionally based" thinkers than it did to the more objective and dispassionate sort. Now suppose that it became associated with an idea that caused someone to spend time just daydreaming. Because anything that compels the less rational among us to waste their time also tends to raise the average rationality of those doing everything else, it thus benefits us all.

[suzbailey23]

@erives174: same here, erives!

[erives174]

Signed and shared as well!!

I live in TX. I'm usually a proud Texan, but this makes me ashamed of our backwards state.