You can't make this up

Texas gets uglier still

All this does is reinforce the need for me to push things like actual school choice initiatives. If only because it would remove millions of students from the tyrannical orders of a handful ultra conservatives worldviews of social movements and philosophy. I didn't realize that opposition was so high against Thomas Jefferson that we needed to write him out of history. Much less replace him with "Enlightenment" thinkers like Thomas Aquinas (who proceeded the historical epoch being described by only a couple centuries, like 5...). I don't have any objection to people studying Aquinas as an influential thinker or his philosophical ideas, but to call that "Enlightenment" era is a serious perversion of what the Enlightenment was over. The hardcore elements of it more or less obscured and eventually attempted to destroy organised religion (see: Revolution, French). There's not much chance of people seriously studying the writings of Jefferson, Paine, or Rousseau and coming away with the idea that they were sympathetic to religious claims of dogmatic knowledge over and often set against the faculty of human reason.

Also: I don't have any serious objections to stressing the importance of the second amendment, but to present it as though the FIRST amendment doesn't exist (by not discussing one of its principle, most revered and copied, and most incisive philosophical features; freedom of conscience and religion) is a little more than ridiculous too.