Legislature in Texas mandated in 2007 states that starting in 2009 public schools must teach the “literature and history” of the good book. To avoid the obvious constitutional problems of separating Church and State, the law is carefully worded to cover true and rather obvious intent much like how Creationists attempt to hide religious purpose behind academic freedom.

This is just another way to slip religion into schools.

via YouTube – Texas required to teach Bible in schools.

Ever since Roe v. Wade, the United States has been deeply divided on the issue of abortion. In that landmark case, an unmarried pregnant woman was refused an abortion in Texas and, with the ensuing judicial challenge, won American women the right to safe, legal abortions. Ever since, proponents and opponents have lined up on either side of the issue, launching verbal abuse — and worse — at each other. As the religious right has increased in size and power in the past decade, the issue has become even more divisive — and violent.

updated 9:46 a.m. PT, Fri., May 8, 2009

FINDLAY, Ohio – A student at a fundamentalist Baptist school that forbids dancing, rock music, hand-holding and kissing will be suspended if he takes his girlfriend to her public high school prom, his principal said.

Despite the warning, 17-year-old Tyler Frost, who has never been to a dance before, said he plans to attend Findlay High School’s prom Saturday.

Frost, a senior at Heritage Christian School in northwest Ohio, agreed to the school’s rules when he signed a statement of cooperation at the beginning of the year, principal Tim England said.

via Christian school to teen: Skip prom – Faith- msnbc.com.

In a book published last year, Dunbar argued the country’s founding fathers created “an emphatically Christian government” and that government should be guided by a “biblical litmus test.” She endorses a belief system that requires “any person desiring to govern have a sincere knowledge and appreciation for the Word of God in order to rightly govern.”

Also in the book, she calls public education a “subtly deceptive tool of perversion.”

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