Screw You, We're from Texas

Texas is not only the home state of the Leader of the Free World, it is also the state which decides what kind of textbooks most U.S. students will be reading for the next generation. Why? Because Texas has so many school districts that their purchasing power influences the content of the textbook publishers who mass-produce their books and want the highest sales possible.
Today, the State Board of Education approved health textbooks for Texas high school and middle school students only after the publishers agreed to change the wording in their books to reflect marriage as being between a man and a woman.
A day earlier some board members had argued that health textbooks should not contain “asexual stealth phrases” such as “individuals who marry” instead of husbands and wives.
Members of the Texas state school board say the overwhelming rejection of gay marriage in 11 states on Tuesday justifies what they did Friday.
"I think they spoke on Election Day — even Oregon — they all have passed the Defense of Marriage Act," says school board member Terri Leo. "I think the country has spoken."

Let the Culture War begin.