By SECULAR COALITION FOR AMERICA - SECULAR COALITION FOR AMERICA
Updated: Tue, 11 May 2010 03:42:17 UTC

A few theocratic members of the Texas State Board of Education are having a national impact. They are using tax dollars to mislead children with religious propaganda, falsely asserting a religious basis to America's founding structure, and removing, of all people, Thomas Jefferson from a list of influential thinkers. Texas textbooks have a national influence while federal science and history standards have been neglected.

Let's make sure our community's voice is heard! Here are four things you can do right now to make a difference.

If you live in Texas: Join a protest on the steps of the state capitol in Austin on Sunday, May 16 at 11:00 AM to defend science, reason, and high academic standards. Click here for more details from Secular Coalition for America member organization American Atheists, the organizers of this event.

If you don't live in Texas: Forward this email to friends, colleagues, acquaintances, or online social network connections you have who do live in Texas, and tell them that they need to stand up for their state's students.

No matter where you live: Click here to write your Member of Congress now. Click here to write your Member of Congress now. Tell them that if they support national education standards and incentives for math and English, they should support standards that are just as strong for science and history, regardless of pressure from religious extremists.

Educate yourself and others about this issue: Click here to read the Secular Coalition for America's factsheet on national education standards.

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