"Antievolutionist appointed to head Texas state board of education.
On July 17, 2007, Don McLeroy was appointed by Texas governor Rick Perry (R) to chair the state board of education, succeeding Geraldine Miller. A member of the board for the last eight years, McLeroy was described by the Dallas Morning News (July 18, 2007) as "aligned with social conservative groups known for their strong stands on evolution, sexual abstinence and other heated topics covered in textbooks" and as "[o]ne of four board members who voted against current high school biology books because of their failure to list weaknesses in the theory of evolution."
http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/news/20...
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, here. Is the objection that the books chosen would include weaknesses in the theory of evolution? And that would be bad...why?
Teaching our children sexual abstinence would be bad...why?
Please help me to understand the objections, here??
2007-07-31
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