Minnesota’s
much-revered intellectual philosopher congresswoman Michele Bachmann has been eerily
quiet over the past few months. Yesterday, she broke her silence with a rousing
denunciation of the National Women’s History Museum in Washington, D.C.
Actually, there isn’t a National Women’s History Museum yet. In fact, the
bi-partisan bill she railed against on the House floor is simply intended to
create a commission to study the idea of a museum. And the museum would be
privately funded. No tax dollars involved.
Bachmann’s preemptive rage is
targeted at the possible content of the museum, a part of the project that
hasn’t even been discussed yet. She worries that the museum will enshrine
radical feminists and be an “ideological shrine to abortion.” In other words,
Bachmann and other conservatives are afraid that those featured in the museum
will be the women who actually made a difference in women’s history.
Once again, for anyone foolish
enough to believe that Republicans want less government intervention in their
private lives, you simply need to listen to Bachmann and her ilk discuss their
version of history, the version they want our children to learn, to know this
is a grand lie. Their faux history is already being taught in many private
religious schools across the country, and they are working hard to bring it to
public schools as well.
If you have questions about what
Bachmann would like to see taught in our schools relating to history, please go
to creationmuseum.org.
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