Quote Originally Posted by Dark Dragon
Damn it Texas, not again.

Just when i finally got around to being glad that i live here.

"Cynthia Dunbar, a lawyer from Richmond who is a strict constitutionalist and thinks the nation was founded on Christian beliefs, managed to cut Thomas Jefferson from a list of figures whose writings inspired revolutions in the late 18th century and 19th century, replacing him with St. Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin and William Blackstone. (Jefferson is not well liked among conservatives on the board because he coined the term “separation between church and state."

Just Brilliant. I've never been more ashamed of being republican.
This is one of many proposed changes to the history books in Texas. The concern is that a lot of the nation's textbooks are produced in Texas, so this kind of conservative re-writing of history will affect the entire country, not just the podunks in Texas.