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Thomas Frank: don’t mess with the Texas Board of Ed.
The Kansas Board of Education is, of course, famous for debating the teaching of evolution in public schools. As recently as 2005, the Board decreed that schools must include Creationism or Intelligent Design in their science curriculum– only to be overruled again in 2007.
The Culture Wars continue to play out in public education, now most [...]
Dancing with the devil
As gay pride parades took place across the country yesterday — including one in Wichita — some gay rights activists in Texas decided to show pride in a different way: by attending an infamously anti-gay church. They went en masse to the San Antonio congregation of firebrand pastor John Hagee, sporting buttons that read: The [...]
Evangelicals’ new face
The newly appointed government affairs guy for the the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) seems to have some humanitarian street cred. Galen Carey has spent the last 26 years at World Relief, a respected advocacy and direct service group and that works on behalf of the poor, the hungry, and the sick — a true [...]
Chat completed on Firedoglake
Whew! We just pounded our keyboards and hit refresh through a spirited and furious ninety-minute web chat on Firedoglake. For now, you can read the chat here. If that link fails, try here, where it’ll be permanently archived. Thanks to Lisa Derrick and everybody else at FDL, we had a great time answering smart questions!
Is Frank Rich right about the culture wars?
Frank Rich thinks the culture wars are dead, washed away by the economic meltdown and election of Obama. Future Majority and Daily Kos seems to largely agree. Fingerlakeswanderer begs to differ.
This is how we weighed in:
Having spent several years covering conservative evangelical Christians for our documentary film, “What’s the Matter with Kansas?” I can testify [...]