Chuck Norris would probably brand my meddling liberal backside.

I'm not linking to Townhall:

As I wrote in my newly released and expanded paperback version of "Black Belt Patriotism," if you want to join me in stopping educational corruption, gridlock and tyranny, then consider doing any of the following:

--Stay active in your child's education, homework, classroom, PTA, school board, etc.

--Get familiar with how academic curriculum is reviewed and chosen in your state, and then e-mail your thoughts on it to your state's education board.

--Get involved in local, state and national politics, and make your voice heard. The time for passivity is over. As Thomas Jefferson once said, "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."

--Learn your state's laws on education, and understand your parental and educational rights. Then teach them to others. To quote Thomas Jefferson again, "Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. ... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."

--Petition your representatives to support a constitutional amendment protecting the child-parent relationship from unreasonable government intrusion.

--Consider petitioning your state's education board, school district and local school to adopt the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools' curriculum about the influence of the Bible in history, civilization, law, literature and the founding of America.

My personal warning to educational tyranny and tyrants is this: It's best not to test or mess with Texas. If you thought we fought hard for the Alamo, wait until you see what we can do for the right to educate our children. You can hide behind your No. 2 pencils, but our branding irons will find your tail sides.

Mr. Norris' Christian god has no more place in the public classroom than a bronze furnace in the shape of a horned Elder God with a maw just the right size for accepting children. The National Council on Bible Curriculum is advocating--duh--a Bible curriculum. What Mr. Norris might be unaware of, which is astonishing given his familiarity with the martial arts and the variety of faiths of the eastern variety which originated those disciplines, is the sheer number of American students who are simply not Christian and have no desire to be.

Surely he is not unaware that many other people come from strong and honorable faith traditions that are not based in Judeo-Christianity? Surely he is not unaware that many people also are quite familiar with his own faith tradition of choice and reject it completely? And perhaps, he should also be aware that physical punishment actually only temporarily compells compliance, but doesn't compell agreement, and is probably exceptionally offensive in the light of espousing a faith surrounding one brutally abused and wretched opponent of the orthodoxy whose example he affects to embrace, in the person of a humble teacher who said, "Love your enemy?"

Also, is he thoroughly ignorant of the place that the bloody conflicts in Europe that specifically concerned religion held for the Founders, who genuinely wanted to keep such conflicts rigorously separate from their democratic experiment? In exactly the same manner as other conservative icons, like Sarah Palin, are?

I'd say, yes, but that is no reason school children ought to be.