“Texas school board decisions [on textbook content] affect school systems across the country. That’s why most sex-ed books have chapters on the reproductive system, abstinence, and how to castrate a steer. […] But the biggest victory of all was that in the curriculum on great revolutionary thinkers, board members removed any reference to Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence. You see, Jefferson coined the term “Separation of church and state.” So Texas has coined the term, “Separation of Jefferson and history.”
Stephen Colbert
via thedailykos
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# “I am a conservative Republican, but I believe in democracy and the separation of church and state. The conservative movement is founded on the simple tenet that people have the right to live life as they please as long as they don’t hurt anyone else in the process.”
(in a 1994 Washington Post essay)
# “The religious factions will go on imposing their will on others,”
# “I don’t have any respect for the Religious Right.”
# “Every good Christian should line up and kick Jerry Falwell’s ass.”
# “A woman has a right to an abortion.”
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