The Texas Freedom Network ran a live blog of the Texas Board of Education's revision of Social Studies textbook standards last week. The Religious Right majority decided to banish Thomas Jefferson from public school text books.
They replaced him with the study of Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin and William Blackstone.
According to board member Cynthia Dunbar Jefferson was demoted because his ideas were "based on other political philosophers."
Obviously, the Republican members of Texas Board of Education have little appreciation for the political and intellectual achievements of Thomas Jefferson. Their ideology clearly has more affinity with the Roman and Genevan theocracies that were championed by Aquinas and Calvin than for the American political union separating church and state that Jefferson championed.
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