The right road on the State Board of Education?
On Sunday, the Star-Telegram reported on a key State Board of Education race that could give the religious right a majority vote on the panel. The race pits Cleburne urologist Barney Maddox against incumbent Pat Hardy in the Republican primary.
Maddox has described Charles Darwin's theories of evolution as "pre-Civil War fairy tales." Hardy has warned that the "far right" in some instances would throw over the teaching of sound science.
Donna Garner, a conservative education activist, has weighed in with a recent email to supporters.
"If we could get rid of Pat Hardy and elect Dr. Barney Maddox, then the votes would be 8-7 in favor of our side," writes Garner, a retired English teacher. "Dr. Maddox is a deeply devout man who has a brilliant mind. ... He is the answer to our side's ability to redirect the SBOE and put our public schools on the right road."
In separate email correspondence, Garner has complained that "the gay lifestyle is getting heavily promoted in our schools," that multi-cultural authors have taken the place of classic literature in schools, and that students are reading teen-genre fiction that contains too much sexual content and violence.
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