Texas “Republican-controlled State Board of Education voted along party lines 10-5” to approve textbooks that extol “Moses’ influence on American democracy”. Since Texas is the second-largest state market for textbooks, the same textbooks may be sold elsewhere around the USA.
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Somehow I missed this story from October 2014 when the United Church of Christ used “freedom of religion” grounds to get a court to strike down North Carolina’s law against same-sex marriage:
“A federal judge has struck down North Carolina’s marriage laws as unconstitutional, giving the United Church of Christ and its co-plaintiffs a monumental and historic victory for equality for all people. General Synod of the United Church of Christ et al vs. Cooper challenged the state’s Amendment One for violating the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of religion.”
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