The Battle Over the Bible in Texas Schools

Maybe we had not been paying enough attention. Maybe it’s because we do not have middle or high school-aged children (that we know of). Or maybe we do not pay too much attention to things going on in the more conservative areas of our state. Whatever the reason, the fact that some public schools have been offering a course, designed by North Carolina-based National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools, that teaches the Bible as historical text had totally been off our radar.

Yes, we said PUBLIC schools. But don’t get all worked up, ya damn heathens…it was only an elective course!

While we were absolutely beside ourselves upon finding out that a course promoting fundamentalist Christian views was being taught in our schools, we breathed a big sigh of relief upon hearing that The Texas Freedom Network had come to the rescue. The religious watchdog group asked SMU biblical scholar Mark A. Chancey to review the curriculum set forth by the wackos from North Carolina. Chancey basically came to the conclusion that any rational person would - keep the Bible studyin’ in private religious schools.

Of course, the National Council on Bible Curriculum (turn your sound down, or even better, way up, before checking out this freaky site) is writing off The Texas Freedom Network and its findings as being a bunch of leftist liberal gobbledygook. Those poor fundamentalist Christians, everyone is always just trying to keep them down. How on earth can we make it up to them? Maybe we should give them the presidency. For the love of jebus, what’s next?

*Thanks to one of our fantastic readers, we have learned that Walker Texas Ranger (Chuck Norris) did a video for the crazy fundamentalists on their website!. Is it just us our does the kung fu master look like he has had a stroke...or maybe just a really bad (is there any other kind) botox job?