We need to take back the school boards

This week, we've seen the textbooks in Texas altered to "define" marriage as between a man and a woman (the reality: they changed words like "partners" to "husband and wife", and "two people get married" to read "a man and a woman get married"). We've seen a school district in Wisconsin join districts in a growing number of states in requiring creationism as part of the science curriculum. Just to scare you a little bit more...

The more striking changes suggested by social conservatives — including language that said homosexuals are more likely to use illegal drugs and commit suicide — were rejected by publishers.

The school board is responsible for these decisions. And where the hell are our people? Who is fighting to keep creation in the church, where it belongs?

They're not running for the school board, that's for sure. I know, some of us have run for school board. But the reality is, most of those who have run jumped straight to AA ball by running for the state House, Congress, or stayed low by running for Party positions. Meanwhile, the GOP keeps sending Christian evangelicals - you know, the American version of the Taliban/Osama - to run for the school boards, where they're forcing creationism into science classes and using the classroom as their own little bible school GOP incubator. Where they're now "defining" marriage for the kiddies. Where they're trying to teach them gays are more likely to commit suicide and use illegal drugs! Good luck, gay teens - your problems coming out just got much worse. Psychologists across America will thank the GOP for that little boost to business.

We need to either start running for school boards ourselves, or recruiting others to do it. We need to treat the school boards as just as vital a race as Congress or the state House. The GOP does. And they're winning.