The Loony Tunes Have Their Say on Public School Education – Christianity Style.

The loony tunes right-wing fundamentalist Christians want, of course, all American public schools to be 100% Christianity-focused with lots of prayers and lots of Bible study and the Ten Commandments posted prominently. Evolution and related subjects would not be taught. That’s all according to these headlines culled from “Right Wing Watch” website stories.

THE BIBLE & PUBLIC SCHOOLS

*Preaching the Bible in Public School. – Posted 13 July 2006

*Unbeatable Martial-Arts Thespian [Chuck Norris] Lends Fist to Bible-in-Schools Campaign. – Posted 31 August 2006

*Texas School District Official [L.V. “Butch” Foreman]: ‘Take That You Dang Heathens’. – Posted 18 May 2007

*Texas Bible Class Push Returns; ‘Anti-Faith Fringe’ Remains Skeptical. – Posted 25 July 2008

*[David] Barton: America Must Instruct Children in “The Fear of the Lord”. – Posted 26 October 2011

*Texas Public School Course Teaches the ‘Racial Origins Traced from Noah’. – Posted 18 January 2013

*The Perils of Teaching the Bible in Public Schools. – Posted 19 February 2013

*Glenn Beck Wants the Bible Taught In Public Schools Because It Has Been ‘The Only Textbook We Needed’. – Posted 24 April 2014

*Hobby Lobby President’s Bible Curriculum Provides Faulty Lessons on Slavery, Women’s Suffrage and Albert Einstein. – Posted 3 June 2014

*[David] Barton: The Founding Fathers Wanted the Bible Taught In Schools to Prevent Another Inquisition. – Posted 4 September 2014

*[Dave] Daubenmire: Public School Teachers Who Don’t Teach About Jesus Are ‘Teaching a Doctrine of Demons’. – Posted 8 September 2014

*Rick Santorum: ‘Yes We Can’ Put the Bible Back In Public Schools. – Posted 16 March 2015

*Rep. Dave Brat: The Real ‘Institutional Racism’ Is Taking the Bible Out of Public Schools. – Posted 23 September 2016

*Kentucky Gov. Links Charlottesville Violence to Removal of Bible Study from Schools. – Posted 18 August 2017

*More Bible Teaching in Public Schools: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? – Posted 31 January 2019

PRAYER & PUBLIC SCHOOLS

*Blaming Virginia Tech Tragedy on Evolution, Lack of School Prayer. – Posted 20 April 2007

*[David] Barton: If Christians Ran Things, Schools Would Institute Prayer & Government Wouldn’t Help the Poor. – Posted 9 August 2011

*[Jerry] Newcombe: School Prayer Would Have Prevented Ohio School Shooting. – Posted 29 February 2012

*[Bryan] Fischer: Removal of Prayer & Ten Commandments from Schools Responsible for CO [Colorado] Shooting. – Posted 20 July 2012

*Religious Right Reacts to Sandy Hook Shooting by Blaming Lack of Government-Dictated School Prayer. – Posted 17 December 2012

*Religious Right Sees Opportunity in Supreme Court Prayer Ruling. – Posted 6 May 2014

*Rick Santorum Falsely Claims Students ‘Can’t Pray In School’. – Posted 28 August 2014

*Will Evangelical Right Cry ‘Persecution’ At Mormon Public School Prayer Case? – Posted 9 December 2014

*Rick Joyner Links Florida Shooting to End of School Prayer Opening ‘The Gate of Hell’. – Posted 15 February 2018

AND SOME RELATED POSTS

*Meet the Right-Wingers Drafting Your Textbooks. – Posted 11 February 2010

*New Reconstrucitonist Documentary Wants Public Schools To “Give Children an Explicitly Christian Education”. – Posted 15 April 2011

*Spiritual Warfare for Public Schools. – Posted 15 February 2012

*Religious Right Activists Warn Parents against Sending Students to Communist, Atheist, Gay Public Schools. – Posted 17 February 2012

*Religious Right Filmmaker [E. Ray Moore] Urges Parents to Take Children out of ‘Godless and Pagan’ Public Schools. – Posted 15 May 2012

*Kansas Group Tries to Remove Evolution from Schools by Claiming Science Is a Religion. – Posted 27 September 2013

*South Carolina GOPer [Ray Moore]: Public Schools Leading To ‘Holocaust in Our Churches’ With Teachings on ‘Evolutionism’ & Homosexuality. – Posted 9 May 2014

*Ruben Diaz Claims Satan Runs Public Schools. – Posted 19 June 2014

*[Rick] Santorum: Call Secularism A Religion So We Can Ban It from Public Schools. – Posted 9 September 2014

*Mike Huckabee: Chapel Services in Public Schools Will End School Shootings. – Posted 26 January 2015

*GOP Committeewoman [Tamara Scott]: Muslim, Wiccan Statehouse Prayers Show Need for Christianity in Public Schools. – Posted 14 April 2015

*Roy Moore Urged Christians to Pull Kids Out of Public Schools That Teach Evolution. – Posted 14 July 2015

*Ben Carson Vows to End Nonexistent ‘Ban on Christianity’ In Public Schools. – Posted 29 February 2016

*E.W. Jackson: Public Schools Should Be Teaching Prayer, the Bible and Christianity. – Posted 20 March 2017