Down here in Dumbutt our Texas State Board of Education has hired some "experts" to help rewrite our history and social studies text books which we and many other states will be using for the next 10 years. Two of the six "experts" are constructionist Evangelical Ministers who believe there is no separation of church and state and we should live under a system of Biblical Law rather than the Constitution. Really!
At the top of their list is removing things they don’t like from history. Most loudly trying to rid history of uppity Mexicans, African Americans and unions. And then add more Columbus, Pilgrims and Puritans who founded this Christian Nation on Christian values!
I totally agree with the that part of it!
More Columbus! Big long chapters on how Columbus brought the Spanish Inquisition to the new world – which had been recently installed by Ferdinand and Isabella in 1486. His plans to enslave what he considered the less than human Indians to mine gold and carry it to his ships. An to then profit from selling Indians to European slave markets. I could help by writing a few dozen chapters on that.
More about the Pilgrims and the Puritans! New England controlled wholly by protestant Biblical law. Where heretics being punished with torture and execution for not going to church, and hanging witches in Salem. I want to see 25 chapters just on that alone!
And as the history courses progress through the year, chapters on Sister Aimee McPherson, Father Caughlin, Jim Jones, Jim and Tammy Bakker and not to forget Jimmy Swaggart choking the Bishop in sleazy motel rooms with $20 ho’s. A long fun chapter on that one please.