During the “Religious Liberty and the LGBT Agenda” panel at The Awakening 2011 that Brian mentioned in the last post, former Texas State Board of Education member Cynthia Dunbar admitted that the right-wing activists on the Board used the recent update to the state’s social studies curriculum as an opportunity to counter the fact that “we have a Biblically illiterate society.”

As she explained, they included in the new curriculum a requirement that students must learn about “the law’s of nature and nature’s God” so that they will be taught that “the ‘laws of nature’ is the will of our maker and because of the fallen state of man, we have to have the ‘laws of nature’s God’ revealed through the Holy Scripture”: