Are You an Asexual Stealth Phrase?
Is your name Jean? Is it Chris? Maybe it's Terri, or mayhaps your name is untraditional like Tyler or Morgan. If so, then you might be an "asexual stealth phrase" and will not be included in any Texan's health textbook.
The Texas board of Education declared the importance of imposing its right wing views upon the Texas middle school and high school students. Afraid that using the phrase "individuals who marry" as opposed to "husbands and wives"in a health class textbook might instill a sense in youngsters that same sex marriage is acceptable.
“I want the reader, the child to know that marriage is between a man and a woman,” [republican Terri] Leo said in a written statement released during a board meeting Thursday.
Texas is the second-largest buyer of textbooks in the country, so those same amended texts will be used by public school students in dozens of other states.
"We really write the books for the rest of the nation," says Leo.
-MSNBC "No Same Sex Marriage in Texas Textbooks"
Sounds pretty conniving and manipulative to me. The decision was bi-partisan, upsetting Austin TX gay activist Randall Ellis. He found the board's behavior to be irresponsible, causing gay and lesbian students to feel further alienated. This got me to thinking about what other phrases got the red ink so that the Texas Board of Education could ensure that all children might feel alienated, thus eliminating Ellis' concern.
Below are some notes that may or may not have been sent to publishers.
History books have left out the complete name of the father of out country. He is not "George Washington", but "George Washington Bush." This is a new and better America and Texas wants to keep its textbooks up to date.
The words "Roe v. Wade" should be changed to "Nancy Drew and the case of the devil's panty raid."
The term "Civil Rights" should be changed to "a small setback"
In place of "evolution" please use "...and on the sixth day God (fill in blank with scientific facts)...and it was good."
Additionally, "Modern man, Cro-Magnon, and Neanderthal should be referred to as man, man's daddy, and man's grandpappy (or Adam)."
In your geography books, could you change the area you've labeled The Middle East to Texas Tea Land?
In your calculus books, please omit the chapter on integration.
The Texas board of Education declared the importance of imposing its right wing views upon the Texas middle school and high school students. Afraid that using the phrase "individuals who marry" as opposed to "husbands and wives"in a health class textbook might instill a sense in youngsters that same sex marriage is acceptable.
“I want the reader, the child to know that marriage is between a man and a woman,” [republican Terri] Leo said in a written statement released during a board meeting Thursday.
Texas is the second-largest buyer of textbooks in the country, so those same amended texts will be used by public school students in dozens of other states.
"We really write the books for the rest of the nation," says Leo.
-MSNBC "No Same Sex Marriage in Texas Textbooks"
Sounds pretty conniving and manipulative to me. The decision was bi-partisan, upsetting Austin TX gay activist Randall Ellis. He found the board's behavior to be irresponsible, causing gay and lesbian students to feel further alienated. This got me to thinking about what other phrases got the red ink so that the Texas Board of Education could ensure that all children might feel alienated, thus eliminating Ellis' concern.
Below are some notes that may or may not have been sent to publishers.
History books have left out the complete name of the father of out country. He is not "George Washington", but "George Washington Bush." This is a new and better America and Texas wants to keep its textbooks up to date.
The words "Roe v. Wade" should be changed to "Nancy Drew and the case of the devil's panty raid."
The term "Civil Rights" should be changed to "a small setback"
In place of "evolution" please use "...and on the sixth day God (fill in blank with scientific facts)...and it was good."
Additionally, "Modern man, Cro-Magnon, and Neanderthal should be referred to as man, man's daddy, and man's grandpappy (or Adam)."
In your geography books, could you change the area you've labeled The Middle East to Texas Tea Land?
In your calculus books, please omit the chapter on integration.
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4:18 PM
