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Texas Education Board Is Trying to Infuse Schoolbooks with Ultraconservative Ideology

Mariah Blake, Washington Monthly. February 13, 2010.

"We are a Christian nation founded on Christian principles," says one board member. "The way I evaluate history textbooks is first I see how they cover Christianity and Israel."

What It's Like To Be an Atheist in the Bible Belt

Susan McCarthy, Comment Is Free. August 6, 2009.

Even in the South's big cities, many atheists feel they have to stay closeted.

Sex Ed in the Bible Belt

Margaret McKeehan, Open Magazine. May 20, 2008.

I signed a paper promising no sex until marriage. The prize for my upstanding moral rectitude? A free chicken sandwich.