{"id":1530,"date":"2008-02-24T11:40:03","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T11:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/02\/24\/texas-state-board-of-education\/"},"modified":"2008-02-24T11:40:03","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T11:40:03","slug":"texas-state-board-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/24\/texas-state-board-of-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas State Board of Education May Shift to Pro Creationism"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are busy watching Florida, and the ICR’s new “degree” in “life science education” in Texas, and whatever crap is happening in our own back yards, and we may be missing a dramatic development at the K-12 level in Texas: Social conservatives are poised to take over the Texas State Board of Education.There is a primary in on March 4th, in which Barney Maddox, a conservative creationist, may take over the run against incumbent Pat Hardy for the District 11 (Fort-Worth) seat on the school board. This would shift the balance of power in the Lone Star (read Libertarian Fundamentalist Yahoo) state of Texas.Maddox is a urologist who refused to talk to the press or otherwise reveal his stance on issues such as creationism. I guess he thinks he’s running for Supreme Court Judge instead of as an elected representative. But his position is fairly clear from his prior leakage. He has posted anti-evolution rhetoric on the Institute for Creation Research web site, and there is a letter to the Cleburne Times Review<\/em> (his home town newspaper) from 2006 that shows his position as well.He has also opposed comprehensive sex education (insisting that the current Texas policy of Abstinence Only policy), is a knon anti-gay homophone, and wants the Ten Commandments displayed in Texas schol rooms.According to the Texas Freedom Network, a watchdog group, this would be the first time since its formation that the Texas Board of Education has had a majority of socila conservatives.So, as I predicted a few weeks back, Texas may well be the next serious battleground state.[source]<\/a>Web Site of the Texas Freedom Network<\/a>Web Site for the TFN Petition to Defend Evolution in Texas. GO SIGN THE PETITION!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are busy watching Florida, and the ICR’s new “degree” in “life science education” in Texas, and whatever crap is happening in our own back yards, and we may be missing a dramatic development at the K-12 level in Texas: Social conservatives are poised to take over the Texas State Board of Education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[207,55,151,156,87],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-oG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}