Texas GOP opposes critical thinking

[Luap]

http://s3.amazonaws.com/texasgop_pre...form_Final.pdf

GOP Opposes Critical Thinking: Party platform paints original ideas as a liberal conspiracy - News Blog - The Austin Chronicle

Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.

And not just that:

– Abstinence-only sex ed (yeah, because that's worked so well so far.)
– Trying juveniles as adults
– Faith-based drug rehab should be emphasized (Scientology front operation NarcAnon should be rubbing its hands at that one)
– Oppose the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Yeah! Who's the UN to tell us we should ban child slavery?)
– Flat rate income tax (go Team 1%!)
– Repealing the minimum wage (suck it, wage slaves!)
– Opposing homosexuality in the military (don't ask, don't tell, and don't do that!)
– Opposition to red light cameras (because if you run a red, kill someone, and there's no witnesses, was the light ever really red?)
– Oppose the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, because firms should be able to fire people for what they consider "sinful and sexually immoral behavior." Like, say, growing a beard?
– Continued opposition to ACORN (even though it has not existed since 2010)
– Opposing statehood or even Congressional voting rights for the citizens of the District of Columbia (who writes this crap, Rand Paul?)
– And no-questions-asked support for Israel because, and this is another direct quote, "Our policy is based on God’s biblical promise to bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel and we further invite other nations and organizations to enjoy the benefits of that promise."

[Solar]

at first i was angry then i laughed at myself:

no surprises here, folks

[Ehres]

I love the part about Israel. G-d bless America.

[Recon]

[.Oji]

the headline reads like something straight out of The Onion

actually, the whole thing reads like something out of The Onion

kupoing wow

[Reflection]

the headline reads like something straight out of The Onion

kupoing wow

yeah i was expecting the onion when i clicked the thread oh my god

[kazukifafner]

typically speaking, it's not good when it sounds like a satirical comedy routine `3`

[Nostalgia]

True, but everything they ever say does sound like they're parodying themselves. Pretty soon, Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert's writers won't even have to do any of the work. I really hope Bill Maher comments on this on Real Time.

[Cosmic+Amarna]

Wow, awesome so happy, just what I like and want. I'm also very proud of them too. Kupo these dumb ass clowns, I just left Texas in January of this year and thank God because Texas sucks crap in thru it's own anal vent. These people are retarded and they clearly want to control our lives. Ridiculous.

Fun fact, did you know that the real first commandant that is written on the tablets given to Moses from God says pretty much to conquer in the name of Yahweh?

10 Commandments:
One of the most shocking things to Christians and Jews is that the 10 Commandments they have learned in school are NOT the ones God wrote in stone. Do you remember Judge Roy Moore? He was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama who had a copy of the 10 Commandments etched on wooden tablets hanging in his court room. From 2001 to 2003 there were a number of legal battles which ultimately lead to his removal from office (Roy Moore recently announced his intention to run for President as a Republican for the 2012 elections). What Roy Moore didn’t know (and all he had to do was read Exodus to see), was that the list of commandments over which he lost his job were never written on stone tablets. That’s right, according to the Bible; the commonly known 10 Commandments were only spoken in speeches, and were never written on stone tablets!
Let’s take a minute to remember the story of Moses and the 10 Commandments. In the story, Moses goes up the mountain and God gives a really long speech (Exodus 20 to 31). In that speech God talks about the not killing, stealing, etc. (Exodus 20), but spends far more time discussing the offerings he wants, how to build his temple, and how he wants his curtain made (check out Exodus 26 for details on Gods curtains). It’s not until the last sentence of Exodus 31 that we even hear about stone tablets. God gives Moses two tablets written by the finger of God (it is not stated at that time what is written on the tablets), and orders him down off the mountain.
When Moses comes down from the mountain, carrying the stone tablets (that he never read), he finds the people worshipping a golden calf. Moses destroys the tablets in a fit of rage and is eventually forced to schlep back up the mountain in order to get another set. It is not until this second set of tablets, also written on stone and by the hand of God, that we learn what was written on both the first and second set of stone tablets (see Exodus 34). This second set is the only set that is called the 10 Commandments by the Bible (the Decalogue), and it is the set that is carried in the Arc of the Covenant and housed in the Temple on the Mound and worshipped by Jews for hundreds of years.
So where does the confusion come in? In Deuteronomy 5, Moses calls his people together to remind them about the long speech God had given them many years earlier. By this time most of the people to whom he was speaking were the children born in the desert and had not heard the original speech, and Moses was quite old. What Moses reminds them of is only the very first part of the long speech, the part in Exodus 20. Moses inaccurately states (in Deuteronomy 5:22) that God gave him two tablets of stone with Exodus 20 written on them, when in fact the stone tablets have Exodus 34 written on them.
So if you believe what the Bible says, Exodus 34 is the ONLY Ten Commandments and the ONLY thing ever written by the hand of God. Exodus 20 is never put in stone and is only given out as a speech along with a very long list of construction activities. So what are the real 10 Commandments? Below you will find the 10 Commandments that were written on stone by the hand of God, were worshipped by Jews, carried in the Arc, and placed in the Temple (a commonly used breakdown):
1. Obey the commandments. Yahweh will conquer the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare among you. Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and cut down their Asherah poles.
2. Do not worship any other god, for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous god. Do not make treaties with those in other lands who worship other gods.
3. Do not make cast idols.
4. Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat bread made without yeast during the first month of the Hebrew Year.
5. Sacrifice the first-born of every womb, including all the firstborn males of your livestock. You can sacrifice a lamb in place of a firstborn donkey, but if you do sacrifice the donkey break its neck. If your firstborn child is a boy sacrifice something else in its place. None shall appear before Yahweh without a sacrifice.
6. Do not work on the Sabbath, even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.
7. Celebrate the Jewish holiday “The Feast of Weeks” with the first fruits of the wheat harvest and celebrate the Jewish holiday “The Feast of Ingathering” at the turn of the year. Three times a year all your men are to appear before the god of Israel and he will conquer surrounding nations before you enlarging your territory.
8. Do not mix blood sacrifices to Yahweh with yeast and do not let any sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning.
9. Bring the first fruits of your land to the house of Yahweh, your god.
Do not cook a baby goat in his mother’s milk.

Written by David Stockin 2011

I only say this because of this

And no-questions-asked support for Israel because, and this is another direct quote, "Our policy is based on God’s biblical promise to bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel and we further invite other nations and organizations to enjoy the benefits of that promise."

[Silver_Soul]

I live, and love Texas, but stuff like this makes me so embarrassed :(

I disagreed with everything on that list yet people will obviously assume that every texan is this way.

on the contrary, nobody i know from here would agree to this. this is dumb.

[Dogenzaka]

As a Texan, there is so much in there that is stupid. Good diddlying grief.

[Nostalgia]

I live, and love Texas, but stuff like this makes me so embarrassed :(

I disagreed with everything on that list yet people will obviously assume that every texan is this way.

on the contrary, nobody i know from here would agree to this. this is dumb.

Can't say everybody in general, but I think the people on this site at least are sharp enough to distinguish Texans from their tree stump representatives.

[The Conquerer]

Jeebus, that's just all kinds of fcked up.

[Eraser Rain]

GOP Opposes Critical Thinking: Party platform paints original ideas as a liberal conspiracy

It would be the greatest thing ever if this were an attempt to shake off people investigating their own conspiracies.

[Sephiroth0812]

This is a joke, right?
That can't possibly proposed for real to make into law, can it?

If this stuff was proposed by the Mullahs of Iran or Al-Qaida it would not sound that much differently. <__<

Also, opposing critical thinking? Like in the way "don't form an opinion that is against ours"?
Pretty much imcompatible with Freedom and Liberty, which is written in the constitution of the USA, I would assume.