Meet Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s possible choice to head the state’s Board of education – Cynthia Dunbar.
[…] 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.”
The establishment of public schools is unconstitutional and even “tyrannical,” she wrote, because it threatens the authority of families, granted by God through Scripture, to direct the instruction of their children.
Um… okay. Anyone think Ms. Dunbar, a Regent University graduate, will do everything in her power to improve public schools, or is this just another self-fulfilling prophecy? You know the drill. Republicans say government doesn’t work, then prove it.
And just to make this more interesting… This is also the year new bibles textbooks will be purchased.