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Bachmann staffers reflect far-right Christianity

By | 09.12.11 | 1:42 pm | More from The Minnesota Independent

Image by Matt MahurinMembers of Michele Bachmann’s presidential campaign staff have taken a number of fringe positions, including campaigning against LGBT rights, supporting the elimination of public schools and characterizing Mormons as non-Christians.

Culture wars at controversy-laden Anoka-Hennepin school district (Minn.) go way back

By | 08.26.11 | 11:07 am | More from The Minnesota Independent

Image by Matt Mahurin“I think the reason the Christian community is really getting involved is we want equal time,” a parent told the Star Tribune in 1992 over the then-brewing debate about whether the Anoka-Hennepin School District should teach that the earth was created in six days. That battle two decades ago More…

Despite Perry claim, Texas schools don’t teach creationism alongside evolution

By | 08.18.11 | 5:33 pm

Rick Perry (Photo: Flickr Creative Commons/eschipul)A New Hampshire campaign trail claim by Gov. Rick Perry during an exchange with a local boy and his mother that Texas schools teach both evolution and creationism, and then allow students to decide which is correct, is a false statement.

Only in Texas…

By | 10.12.10 | 9:48 am

…are candidates for the State Board of Education asked whether they believe humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth together.

They both answered no, but the first full debate for the Board featured lengthy conversations about Christianity and creationism, as well as the role of sex ed in public schools. More…

Why the Texas Board of Education Results Were Good — but Not Great — News for Science

By | 03.03.10 | 1:53 pm

Good: Because Don McLeroy — the guy who, according to The New York Times, “identifies himself as a young-earth creationist who believes that the earth was created in six days, as the book of Genesis has it, less than 10,000 years ago” — will no longer More…

Rick Perry to U.S. Government: Keep Your Education Money

By | 01.13.10 | 5:23 pm

Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas), perhaps best known for threatening that his state may secede from the union, issued a press release today in which he declared Texas would not apply for education grant money from the Obama administration’s $4.35 billion “Race to the Top” fund. The reason, More…

‘This Earth’s Been Here 6,000 Years, Long Before We Had Environmental Laws’

By | 07.08.09 | 1:07 pm

She’d have to move to Anchorage, of course, but is it too soon to talk about State Sen. Sylvia Allen (R-Ariz.) as a possible governor of Alaska?