So what's up with the snide little aside in this article from the Huffington Post reporting on Texas Governor Rick Perry's pick of Gail Lowe, an "outspoken creationist" to head up the Texas Board of Education?
"It was actually the less controversial choice. Cynthia Dunbar, reportedly under consideration for the post, believed government should be guided by a "biblical litmus test" and thought public education was a "subtly deceptive tool of perversion." (She home-schooled her own children.) She has also endorsed conspiracy theories suggesting President Obama is not a natural-born citizen." (emphasis mine)
Yeah, choosing a pseudoscience expert to head up a state school board isn't the most confidence inducing move in Texas' already beleaguered education system, but what has the whispered undertones of "she homeschooled her own children" got to do with anything?
I take issue with the choice to homeschool being equated with ignorance, conspiracy theories, and creation science .
Good grief!
Give 'em your .02 here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/12/gail-lowe-perry-picks-cre_n_230167.html
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