It Would Be Like Putting Me In Charge Of The NRA
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.
Tags: Education, Religion, Wingnuttery
She sounds like the whack-jobs who used to be on the Kansas Board of Education. Seriously, how can Perry look at the citizens of Texas with a straight face and appoint this idiot?
Moral of the story – don’t live in Texas
who does she think she is, George Washington?
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
The Texas legislature just narrowly defeated the last whackjob that Perry nominated.
It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
God and the Bible are just as much with us as they ever were.
Last time I checked, the Bible still existed. And God’s existence is still up to your faith, same as always.
“It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.”
It’s pretty close to impossible to govern a nation full of dumb-as-a-red-brick Christian assholes, too.
God exists regardless of your faith. BTW that quoteGeezer was from a Democrat, Andrew Jackson.
News Flash – we are not a “Christian nation,” just as we are not a Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, or Whirling Dervish nation.
I’ve read the Bible numerous times (in the original Aramaic BTW), and I have yet to find the passage where it states that G-D created the US as a Christian nation. Perhaps one of my learned friends from the right could point it out for all of us.
Don’t even get this Texas teacher started on this one.
Let’s just say that crap like this is why I’m backing Kay Bailey Hutchison in the 2010 primary.
It would be like:
1. Caring about a nothing-governor from Alaska or
2. Having a plagiarist as a vice president or
3. Putting the govt in charge of their own raises or
4. Having a governor who didn’t even graduate high school but who knew how to study issues with commissions or
5. Having a president with a terrorist as a mentor or
6. Having a president with sexual harrassment history with interns or
7. Having a president in charge of the military when a potential enemy nation threatened his father or
8. Having a governor who was the treasurer be completely dumbfounded when the state’s economy tanks or
9. Thinking that our US Representative votes any other way except what will get him elected next or
10. Watching a president want to be buddies with a president of Russia who just provided missile parts to North Korea or
11. Thinking the govt can run health care any better than they run the VA hospitals or
12. Trusting a govt with Social Security when none of the govt employees use that program or
13. Reading the “Where’s Joe” column in the newspaper or
14. Thinking higher taxes and govt programs will stimulate an economy or
15. Believing that the UD really needs higher tuition to support kids who can’t afford it or
16. Thinking a trillion from Bush/a trillion from Obama is no big deal.
There is a lot that could be done to improve public schools. Eliminating half of the bureaucracy might be a good first step. Putting people on school boards with common sense would the the next.
Society is ill served by lackeys for the educational establishment.
“It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.”
Oh, FOR FUCK’S SAKE, PLEASE.
Christians, quit jamming your “lord” and “savior”
down our throats. Cut the shit.