The Houston Chronicle's Gary Scharrer reports that the Texas Board of Education continues to be divided on the issue of religion in the Social Studies curriculum, especially the role it played in the founding of the country.
Getting experts to agree on the religious beliefs of the Founding Fathers may be difficult. Christianity did influence some of them, said Richard Hughes, distinguished professor of religion at Messiah College.
“It is absolutely right to suggest that Puritans who settled New England came here with a vision for a Christian commonwealth,” Hughes said. “It is absolutely wrong to suggest that America's founders had that same vision. They simply didn't.”
Hearings will be held in January with a vote not expected until March.
