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Texas Eagle Forum
News & Notes
May 2008
TEF’S PATRIOTIC BANQUET, JUNE 12
Make plans now to attend TEF’S gala Patriotic Banquet, featuring
David Barton, president of WallBuilders, speaking on “The
Threat of Radical Islam,” and guest speaker Eagle Forum
President Phyllis Schalfly on “Freedom & National Sovereignty-Inseparable.”
The banquet will be held at the Hilton Americas Houston
on Thursday, June 12, with a VIP Reception at 6:00 pm and
dinner at 7:00. Table sponsorships are available; individual
tickets are $65. For more information or to make a reservation,
please call 713-980-3274 or email info@theadamsgroup.us.
Sign up form here
also.
Please drop by the TEF booth at the Republican State Convention. We would enjoy visiting with you.
TEXAS DEMANDS FAITH IN DARWINISM
The state of Texas has decided that a graduate school with a faculty sporting Ph.Ds from UCLA, Penn State, the University of Montana, Colorado State, Case Western and Indiana University, with a few lowly Ed.D. degrees thrown it, isn't qualified to grant master's degrees because it teaches students to evaluate thoroughly the pluses – and minuses – of evolution and creation. The verdict came just a week ago from the Texas Higher Education Consulting Board, which rejected an application from the Institute for Creation Research Graduate School for a Certificate of Authority to grant degrees
"This is the second time in 18 years that a state's top educational
authority has attempted to thwart the Institute for Creation
Research's ability to offer master's degrees in science and
science education," said a statement from the Answers in Genesis
organization.
"Such a setback for a school – which has several qualified
Ph.D. scientists on its faculty – merely confirms what the
just-released film 'Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed' has
been exposing: academia will not tolerate any challenge to
evolutionist orthodoxy and will suppress the liberties of
Darwin-doubters," AIG said.
ICR has been issuing master's degrees in California since
1981. In 1990, it overcame a challenge from state educational
officials who tried to deny the school the opportunity to
offer degrees. "ICR eventually won approval in a federal court,"
AIG said. "Due to its recent move to Texas, ICR had to apply
to the THECB for similar authorization … and once again found
itself running another educational gauntlet."
According to the Dallas Morning News, Henry Morris III, the
chief executive officer for the ICRGS, said the school prepares
students to "understand both sides of the scientific perspective,
although we do favor the creationist view." After being rejected,
he said the institute may revise its application or pursue
a court action. Under state procedures, the ICRGS now would
have 45 days to file an appeal, or 180 days to begin a new
application.
Source: WorldNetDaily, 5/2/08
PATRIOT ACADEMY
Each summer, WallBuilders helps sponsor Patriot Academy to
train the leaders of the next generation. From July 16-19,
students between the ages of 16-25 from across the nation
will learn the legislative process on the very floor of the
Texas State Capitol, where they will write bills and guide
those bills through the legislative process, learn debate
and communication techniques, and receive training in Biblical
worldview and American constitutional philosophy. If you know
of any young people with a desire to be future leaders, we
encourage you to send them to Patriot Academy! For more information,
call 512-858-4825 or visit www.patriotacademy.com.
R.I.P. ROSALIND KRESS HALEY
Eagle Forum lost one of its most distinguished and longtime
members at the age of 97 on April 23 in Midland, Texas.
Ros was one of the outstanding patriots and citizen activists
of the 20th century.
Ros' father, Claude W. Kress, was a great economic pioneer
who believed in America and the private enterprise system.
He and his two brothers built the giant S.H. Kress & Co.
variety-store chain that was a familiar sight in America's
retail business during much of the 20th century.
Ros and Phyllis Schlafly were friends and compatriots in
the anti-Communist movement of the early 1960s. Ros was
one of Phyllis's leaders at the infamous convention of the
National Federation of Republican Women in 1967. As a delegate
from Georgia, Ros dared to speak from the floor to expose
the election frauds that defeated Phyllis for NFRW president.
When Ronald Reagan's campaign for President was going down
the tubes in 1976, it was resurrected by Jesse Helms in
North Carolina and Ros Haley and her husband, Evetts Haley,
in Texas. Those primaries gave Reagan almost enough votes
to be nominated at the 1976 Convention and definitely enough
votes to adopt a pro-American anti-Kissinger Platform. It
is unlikely that Ronald Reagan would have been elected President
in 1980 without his victories in 1976.
Ros donated her valuable and important library to be housed
at the Eagle Forum Education Center in St. Louis. The Rosalind
Kress Haley Library will be a valuable resource for scholars
indefinitely into the future.
Source: EF News & Notes, 4/25/08
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