Maria,
THANK YOU for taking action.
We'll be doing a joint petition drop at the State Board of Education hearing TOMORROW in Austin, led by our friends at the Texas Freedom Network. That means we need to get our petition signatures over to them tonight.
Please help spread the word in these final hours to make sure our petition is as strong as possible!
-- Ben
From: Ben Betz, People For the American Way
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2003
Re: Speak out to keep religion out of science textbooks now!
Click Here to Stand Up Against the Right's War on Science!
Tell the TX State Board of Ed:
"Creationism is religion and doesn't belong in a science textbook -- science does. I urge you to reject any recommendation to include creationism, or to undermine or restrict information about evolution in biology curricula and textbooks."
Sign the Petition
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Maria,
Anti-science Religious Right leaders in Texas are once again trying to get creationism placed in the state’s science textbooks and undermine the teaching of evolution.
Tell the Texas State Board of Education that science belongs in science textbooks, not religion.
There’s a hearing of the State Board of Education on TUESDAY in Austin, where we’ll have local PFAW members deliver your petition signatures to make sure state officials know the whole country is watching.
Because of the way Texas chooses its textbooks and the massive size of the state’s market, what Texas requires in its textbooks has national implications, because the textbook publishers sell the same textbooks nationwide.
Not only have evolution deniers been placed on the official review teams for biology textbooks, according to our good friends at the Texas Freedom Network, they’re:
- Insisting that "creation science based on Biblical principles should be incorporated into every biology book that is up for adoption."
- Complaining that a textbook "neglects to tell students that no transitional fossils have been discovered."
- And pushing wildly inaccurate claims that deny the science of climate change.
Add your name now to stand up to these attacks on science and the Right’s attempt to inject their religion into public education.
After you sign the petition, please take one of the follow-up actions and help spread the word.
Thank you for your activism!
-- Ben Betz, Online Strategy Manager
