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Religious Right Loses a Big One in Texas
We don't usually jump on news items here, because we are more about looking at the wider and deeper picture. But in the wake of my recent posts about how a religious right stealth candidate for the Texas State Board of Education might knock off a pro-public education Republican in the GOP primary -- and give the religious right outright control of the board -- it is worth noting that that did not happen, and that the state's science education standards are safe, for now. |
The Associated Press reports:
Another GOP winner was Patricia Hardy, a two-term state education board member who defeated a North Texas urologist quoted as calling tenets of evolution theory "a fairy tale."
Hardy captured 59 percent of the vote with all precincts reporting, beating creation-science advocate Barney Maddox. Hardy said her opponent kept his evolution views out of campaign mailings but did tell social conservatives he would vote with them.
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