Another article on schools

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/magazine/14texbooks-t.html?scp=3&sq=texas%20curriculum&st=cse

This lengthy article looks at the Texas board of education.  Many on the board are Christian and hope to move forward with their agenda to get Texas textbooks and education to include more about Christianity.  Often the debate has been about science and specifically, evolution.  In this article, it looks at history, and how the Christian's on the board are trying to get education to look heavily at the founding father's (debatable) Christian views.

There is very much debate about what the founding fathers intended our country to be founded on.  Did they intend it to be a Christian nation, or a nation that held up the idea of Separation of Church and State?  Now, Christians on this board are saying that separation of Church and State doesn't mean what people traditionally thought of it, but something else.

Are they reading into it what they want to?  How does it effect education to limit it to just Christianity, and not respecting other ideas that the founding fathers might have held.  Is it impossible to provide both sides to students?  Or should they only hear that the founding fathers were Christians and ignore the possibility that they weren't.

I often wonder what this country would be like if the majority religion was Islam, Hinduism, or something else.  Would we still see the blatant neglect of intellectual freedom in some other form?  Or would other religions be more open to such things?  I know, for example, that Muslim scholars used to be the leading scholars on Aristotle, but they were stopped by their religious leaders because they did not think that Aristotle said things that they as a religion could agree on.  Is this testament to the idea that religion as a whole does not work well with intellectual freedom?