Kansas vs. Darwin

What's one way you can Stand Up for Science in Texas? Throw a party! Host a house party and screen an award-winning documentary, Kansas vs. Darwin, which chronicles creationist efforts to undermine what schoolchildren learn about evolution in their science classrooms. Texas Freedom Network will give you the support and tools you need to educate friends who want to Stand Up for Science!

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or RSVP to our upcoming Houston screening

Stand Up for Science!

Evolution is under fire as the State Board of Education revises curriculum standards for all public school science classes in Texas. Creationists on the state board have already made it clear that weakening instruction on evolution is a priority. Support a sound education for Texas students by joining the Stand Up for Science campaign.

Learn more about the Stand Up for Science campaign.
Learn more about the state board's creationist chairman, Don McLeroy.
Watch McLeroy's recent interview on Texas Monthly Talks.

Texas GOP Platform: An Exercise in Extremism

The religious right is reeling from electoral and other setbacks across the nation over the past two years. Yet you wouldn’t know that by reading the 2008 platform of the Republican Party of Texas. Religious extremists at the party’s convention this year demonstrated that they still have a stranglehold on the state GOP.

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The State of the Religious Right:
Dragging Texas Schools into the Culture Wars

In the early 1990s, the religious right began a long process of turning a sleepy corner of Texas government -- the State Board of Education -- into a major battleground in the nation’s culture wars. The Texas Freedom Network Education Fund's third annual report on the religious right in Texas focuses on the state board and public education.

Read the 2008 State of the Religious Right report.
Read other annual reports about the religious right in Texas politics.

Pulling the Curtain Back on the Texas Restoration Project

The Texas Freedom Network has asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate whether a private foundation improperly funded the Texas Restoration Project’s efforts to drag churches into Gov. Rick Perry’s re-election campaign in 2006. Groups modeled on the Texas Restoration Project have now cropped up in other presidential battleground states as well. Events hosted by these groups prominently featured former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee during his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.

 Read TFN's press release.
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TFN Newsletter

The Texas Freedom Network's battle with radicals on the State Board of Education headlines the Summer 2008 newsletter. The new issue also looks at what state and national news media are saying about efforts by religious extremists on the state board to undermine sound science education in Texas.

 Summer 2008 newsletter
 TFN newsletter archive