As a man bearing a Confederate flag sat outside a State Board of Education meeting on Monday, a prominent Christian activist took the podium inside, urging that public schools combat Islamic pedophiles by reasserting America’s Judeo-Christian roots. Moments later, citing debunked claims that kids were pretending to be cats and using litter boxes in classrooms, an activist who has pushed to ban books in public schools bemoaned in her own testimony that too many children have “not been introduced to Jesus.” And at a press conference later in the day, Frank Gaffney Jr., an anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist, warned that communists, “sharia supremacists,” and “global elites” were coming for Texas children. “What they always start with is the kids,” Gaffney, founder of the far-right Center for Security…The post The State Board of Education Is Rewriting Texas History. It Will Only Get More Extreme. appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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