Texas Board Of Education Votes To Place Jesus Among Founding Fathers In New Textbooks

Story by Erik Mellgren 

| Published Mar 30, 2010

Last week, the Texas State Board of Education made its final change to the Texas State social studies curriculum, ending several days of intense debate. Among the most popular of the changes was the idea that Jesus Christ was not only the inspiration for the American Revolution, but that he was a founding father of the United States, as he was present for the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

“It’s about time that people stand up to the ‘historians’ who try to indoctrinate our children with their heathen, liberal devil-talk. We feel that everyone who was at the signing of the Declaration of Independence should be considered among the founding fathers, and that means Jesus,” said board member Terri Leo following the vote.

The new Texas curriculum will have far-reaching consequences outside the Lone Star State. As the largest buyer of textbooks in the country, schools in other states will be forced to purchase the books modeled after the Texas curriculum, as they cannot afford to have textbooks made that solely reflet their own state educational goals.

Board member Mavis Knight tried to argue against the inclusion of Jesus as a founding father. She debated that there was not a single piece of evidence that Jesus returned to Earth for the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Don McLeroy, another board member and dentist by trade, dismissed her complaints, saying that she was not a historian and therefore was in no place to make such revisionist claims about history.

In order to make room for the newest founding father, the board voted to remove Thomas Jefferson from the lineup. The board went on to reject every piece of documented evidence surrounding the founding of the United States by mandating that no student learn his involvement in the American Revolution.

Regarding the measure, board member David Bradley said, “Thomas Jefferson was a cheat, a liar and even worse, a liberal. His idea of the separation of church and state does not fit in with the teachings of Jesus at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and therefore he could not have been involved. We are just trying to restore history to how it actually happened.”