Organization founded by Planned Parenthood president behind Texas textbook battle
The Texas Freedom Network was founded by Ann Richards’ daughter Cecile, who is today the Planned Parenthood national president. This is the caliber of people who are opposing Texas traditions and American history.
~ Texas Eagle Forum’s Cathie Adams, on opposition to verbiage proposed in new Texas textbooks, woai.com, November 21
A very clever choice for today’s quote.
Congratulations, Cece. You’re famous! People instantly recognize your name and all of its baggage.
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Honestly, I’m not familiar with this Texas textbook controversy but I’m just going to assume that the side Cecile Richards is on is wrong.
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That face.
Makes me weep.
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Although I was not a Texan personally involved in the battle, I was aware years ago that there had been and was an ongoing battle for control of what kind of textbooks would be used in the Texas public school system. In general conservatives and Christians were on one side and liberals and secularists on the other side. The battle was especially important, at least years ago, because the population and influence of what textbooks the Texas school system ordered influenced what textbook publishers published for national consumption. And this in turn had an influence on what textbooks other states would use. The article above about Planned Parenthood’s current involvement in the Texas schoolbook texts indicates that the long-time ideological battle I referred to above must be an ongoing battle. Perhaps we can be enlightened more about this battle by future articles or references.
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There has been a constant battle over text books in Texas for some years.
The creationists on the board have constantly striven to have their creationist non-facts included in science textbooks.
In more recent years the tea-party type folks amongst them have made attempts to re-write some of the history and social studies books to represent their myopic version of what happened historically and why.
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