Though the vote was a unanimous 19 Republicans in support and 11 Democrats to reject, the Democrats had enough votes to get by the 2/3 needed to oust Texas Taliban State Board of Education chairman Don McLeroy. McLeroy is not only a staunch supporter of creationism and the 6000 year old Earth, but his Christian Fundamentalism also puts the nix on global warming, climate change, and of course multiculturalism which teaches Texas Students about other people and places. He and his Taliban Clan on the Board are trying to get their religious views into our text books which will be decided next year. The text books are used for 10 year periods. Texas textbooks also are purchased by many other states due to the buying power of the Texas population.
Though a blow for Texas secessionist Governor Rick Perry – who has recently gone off the deep end placating the Texas Republican Base to beat Senator Kay Baily Hutchinson in the primaries next year, – it is expected that he will retaliate by moving board member Cynthia Dunbar up to the chair position. Dunbar is an even crazier Texas Taliban nitwit than McLeroy. Texas Taliban Cynthia Dunbar
One time matchbox preacher, right-wing radio talk show host and owner of the 24/7 Houston Right-wing radio station Dan Patrick who sold it all to become a state legislator understands the politics at hand. Democrats voting McLeroy down have feigned it as a lack of leadership rather than the religious ignorance and an embarrassment to Texas it actually is.
"If this isn’t about evolution, if this isn’t about what the Bible teaches, what is it all about? asked Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, referring to opposition to McLeroy.
A recent Zogby Poll found that 80% of Americans want the "weaknesses of evolution" taught in public schools. That phrase is now the replacement for "creationism" since "Intelligent Design" took a big legal hit in Dover, Pennsylvania a few years back. Dan Patrick knows full well that if 80% of Americans are that stupid – and Texans are known to be twice as stupid as everyone else – that 160% of Texans are against evolution. And every one of them votes, some twice, once for themselves and once for Jezus.