Yesterday’s Houston Chronicle is reporting that Texas SBOE member / homeschool mom of two, Cynthia Dunbar – who advocated more Christianity in the public square in her book, One Nation Under God - is among those that Governor Rick Perry is considering to lead the State Board of Education.
From the book’s back cover:
We Must Not Stand Silent…while the foundational truths that made this nation great are being eroded. America is in danger from elements within and outside her borders that undermine the principles, beliefs and core truths upon which she was founded. Political pundits, liberals and social interest groups are trying to skew our constitutional ground rules. We need a compass to guide us back to the path of destiny and greatness. America needs people who know the truth, speak the truth and stand for the truth. Unfortunately, many of us are simply not aware of the clear constitutional and biblical principles that initiated and governed the course of this union. So we sit quietly and idly by as our liberties and freedoms are removed one by one.
The Amazon reviews of her book are interesting: the five-star critiques are as telling as the one-stars.
One reviewer notes:
She does call public education a “subtly deceptive tool of perversion,” and she equates sending children to public schools to, “throwing them into the enemy’s flames even as the children of Israel threw their children to Moloch.”
But wait — if Rick Perry takes that role and TX secedes to be its own republic, wouldn’t that make HIM a national head of government education standards impermissably infringing on individual liberty too?
:-)
Btw I blogged Cynthia Dunbar’s education politics at Snook last year; surely we ought to know all about her as an individual if that matters more than any social responsibility these wackos have to rest of humanity . . .
Holy crap. Does anybody recognize this from a favorite blog?
Oh. My. God.
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…on my way out the door…. will be back to read JJ’s link :)
I will never quite understand, what warrants the reason for being so hostile against non-believers. Yes, I know, I know… they feel threatened… they fear us… but what have we ever done to scare anyone? I don’t get it. Ugh, not a good day for me to be reading such crap. Sorry to be whining.
Maybe Regent Law School has a satellite in Michigan?
I can’t honestly remember EVER seeing a modern book where the author appends, “Esq.,” to their name.
Well, Freckles, when you challenge someone’s entire view of the world, they often react with fear and/or anger.
“You are telling me that everything I have taught my children, everything my parents taught me, all the time, money and effort spent on these idea was wrong? A complete waste? A distraction from the real life I could have been living? I think I’ll punch you in the nose! ”
Nance
Newt Gingrich wants to go a step further and do more than punch pagans in the nose . . .
astrostu:
I noticed that, too :)
The only other time I’ve seen it on a modern book?
Michael Farris of HSLDA (of conservative Christian homeschooling fame).
Yeah, JJ. What’s the deal with this latest “pagan” meme? And, what century are we in? Is it why they refuse to use the word “gay”? Since, in their time-warped minds, “gay” still means “a merry, lively mood”? :S
Ute:
Whatever we did, it was really, really bad >:[]
JJ:
a la Chancellor Pat Robertson, eh? A perfect ideological match?
“. . .And, what century are we in?”
HA! I ask myself that all the time!
JJ,
Thanks for referencing your interesting post about Cynthia Dunbar and Michele Bachmann, two women who not only look similar; they seem to share a stunning lack of curiosity and depth. Can we add Sarah Palin and our unnamed politics-inspired blogger to make it a foursome?
Hell yeah!
see also, Sub-subliminal:
Jeff Sharlet compares “the Family” of Regent U and Doug Coe et al at C Street, similar if not identical to the politics of those like Bachmann, Dunbar and Perry, to the Mafia.
So they ARE deep but like an iceberg (not a well of thought) where their extreme hazard to human life, liberty and pursuit of real happiness is largely unseen, hidden below the surface, not restorative but destructive to human life, liberty and pursuit of happiness in its very existence.
Because sooner or later we will crash into it, and it will win.