The Associated Press reported on 5/29/2009 that Democrats in the Texas Senate have blocked the reappointment of a creationist to head the state board that sets standards and policies for Texas public schools. The 19-11 vote was one vote shy of the two-thirds approval needed to support Gov. Rick Perry's nomination of Don McLeroy as chairman of the State Board of Education. McLeroy has been chairman of the board since 2007 and will remain a member. He has supported requiring students to "evaluate the sufficiency or insufficiency" of the theory of evolution. A senator who supported McLeroy said the vote suggests that people who believe in the infallibility of the Bible are not welcome on the State Board of Education. Democrats said their vote against McLeroy wasn't about religion, but about protecting education. [Editor's note: The Democrats' claim is simply not true--it IS about religion, about censoring the traditional Judaeo-Christian or Biblical worldview concerning the origin of the universe and development of life on earth from receiving a fair hearing in public school science classes. And it is NOT "about protecting education" but about protecting the anti-creationists' monopoly on public education to be able to spoon feed students their evolutionary theory as fact and prohibit the critical analysis of any alternatives. Why are the evolutionists and anti-creationists so AFRAID of letting both sides be examined and discussed?  The moral of the story is that Christians need to keep their children out of the devil's indoctrination centers and to educate them at home. WSW.]