The Texas State Board of Education voted Friday to slice mention of Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller from the state’s mandatory history curriculum — but will keep in Moses’ influence on U.S. founding documents, The Dallas Morning News reported. Clinton, the first woman in U.S. history to win a presidential nomination by a major political party, only ranked a five. Texas Monthly reported that board members had considered cutting a “value-laden” phrase about “all the heroic defenders who gave their lives” in the 1836 battle of the Alamo against Mexican soldiers in what was then Mexican Texas. “In Texas, you don’t mess with the Alamo and you don’t mess with our Christian heritage,” Texas Values president Jonathan Saenz said in a statement. “We applaud the majority of the State Board of Education for doing the right thing by restoring our foundational rights and history.”The vote is preliminary and may still change.

Source: Huffington Post September 15, 2018 06:00 UTC