Now that Arizona allows Bible classes in public schools, maybe it’s a good idea to think about what that curriculum could look like.
Let’s hope that no one takes an interest in any of the textbooks used in Louisiana voucher schools. The folks at Mother Jones looked at those schools and their textbooks from such great education publishers as the Bob Jones University Press.
Lessons include how dinosaurs and humans hung out; dragons were real; God used the Trail of Tears to bring Indians to Jesus; Slave masters were cool; the KKK was A-OK; Mark Twain and Emily Dickinson were hacks; gay people “have no more claims to special rights than child molesters or rapists;” and globalization is a precursor to rapture.
This article appears in Aug 9-15, 2012.
*sigh* I sure hope the bible classes being taught in public schools are part of a larger religious studies class, not as a “this is the Word of God” class.
Scary stuff. I hope this proposed curriculum does not drag Arizona further down the national education rankings. According to the American Legislative Exchange Council’s 2011 Report Card on American Education (K-12), Louisiana ranks 49 and Arizona ranks 36. By the way Massachusetts ranks #1, and at the bottom is West Virginia 51.
As usual, Arizona is in a race to the bottom. Of course, the only way conservatives can hold onto power is to keep the electorate as pig-ignorant as possible. Just look how well this strategy has done here.
And don’t forget that “Traditional Marriage” includes a number of wives (up to hundreds) and if wifie “has a headache”, it’s ok to futz around with her maidservant…or whoever…
In other words, “Marriage” is only between a man and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman, and a woman and concubines…
Of course, all of that is only affordable to the Romney Class…
Dreams…
Whatever it is it would be an Abomination to the non-theist “Founding Fathers” that the tea-bagger legislators seem to revere so much…
Leave it to the morons in Arizona to legislate laws that are contrary to the United States Constitution. The Founding Fathers knew that religious leaders would try to hoodwink the citizens just as they have throughout history and now the Theocrats are trying to force their ideology on us all. The radical muslims in the middle east are no different than the radical christians in the United States. Both have killed to make their message relevant. They wont be happy until we live in a Theocracy and the church can dictate all the weird crap that they have been putting people thru for centuries. I believe in God but I don’t want some bible thumping cretin telling me how to live my life.