The Texas State Board of Education declares war on the Declaration of Independence.

That‘s one perspective on the Lone Star State board that approves educational textbooks in Texas. After all, when you delete Thomas Jefferson – author of the Declaration of Independence – from the state curriculum, something un-American is definitely afoot.

According to a Washington Post column on faith, the board was also rejecting Jefferson‘s – and the Constitution‘s – guarantee of a separation of church and state, noting the: