A woman who could determine the nation’s textbook curriculum believes the Civil War was not caused by slavery, Barack Obama is a former gay Arab prostitute, and gays are abominations.

 

Mary Lou Bruner is running for an open seat on the Texas State Board of Education. On Tuesday came within two percentage points of an outright win. Now she’ll face a run-off election against Kevin Ellis, a chiropractor, but her eventual victory looks all but assured.

 

The board picks curriculum and textbooks for Texas’s schools and because of Texas’s outsized purchasing power, its decisions can influence publishers whose materials are used in several other states.

 

“I am not saying the Native Americans deserved what happened to them but sometimes God removes his protection from people who worship pagan gods,” she once wrote on Facebook in an apparent reference to the Native American population’s historic mistreatment by the United States.

 

“The school shootings started after the schools started teaching evolution is an absolute fact and the classes cannot talk about weaknesses in the Theory of Evolution,” she wrote. “You are very naive if you believe a tiny river carved out the Grand Canyon.”

 

“The new Boy Scouts organization might be called Rainbow Penguins,” she wrote. “The Boy Scouts of America is now a Homosexual organization much like the Man-Boy Pedophile Organization.” (She regularly adds a P for pedophile to “LGBTQ” movement.) Bruner believes “gay men prefer young people (children and teenagers) as sex partners.”

 

Anti-Gay, Pro-Creationism Birther Could Change America’s Textbooks - The Daily Beast

I am at a loss for words...

Sounds like she will fit right in.

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Sounds like she will fit right in.

 

With???

I'm sorry, but I'm still laughing at the "former gay Arab prostitute".:lol2:

As an atheist walking around in the world, I think we see "things" that other people just kinda glaze over cause they believe. In this case, her views are not that uncommon. She does seem to be able to articulate them in a particularly stupid way though. Anti-evolution, Anti-Obama, Anti-gay. Not that uncommon of a combination.

"Textbooks" and "Texas" don't work well in the same sentence.

As an atheist walking around in the world, I think we see "things" that other people just kinda glaze over cause they believe. In this case, her views are not that uncommon. She does seem to be able to articulate them in a particularly stupid way though. Anti-evolution, Anti-Obama, Anti-gay. Not that uncommon of a combination.

 

Agnostic here but I had this exact conversation with someone yesterday.

 

Mind boggling

I guess us believers walk around like zombies, wholly unaware of all of these things that the deep thinkers and open minded types see that we just can't.

 

Our minds are so closed they just can't be boggled I guess.

As an atheist walking around in the world, I think we see "things" that other people just kinda glaze over cause they believe. In this case, her views are not that uncommon. She does seem to be able to articulate them in a particularly stupid way though. Anti-evolution, Anti-Obama, Anti-gay. Not that uncommon of a combination.

 

You've said a mouthful.

 

How refreshing.

I guess us believers walk around like zombies, wholly unaware of all of these things that the deep thinkers and open minded types see that we just can't.

 

Our minds are so closed they just can't be boggled I guess.

 

It is not meant to be an attack.

I am at a loss for words...

 

As an educator ,this kind of thing is incredibly bothersome , almost to the point of keeping me up at night.

I guess us believers walk around like zombies, wholly unaware of all of these things that the deep thinkers and open minded types see that we just can't.

 

Our minds are so closed they just can't be boggled I guess.

 

Our minds are open to possibilities that the non believers can't or won't see.

 

It is what it is.

My guess is that Ms Bruner is secretly gay.