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@tynan
Agreed, in fact I would go as far as to say that the overwhelming majority of problems with religion manifest themselves when religion steps outside it's remit (insane epistemology, incantations and private consolation :P ) and becomes 'political' (or more simply put - takes on a role of governance in other people affairs - even those who do not subscribe to the bizarre knowledge claims of that religion).
The reason Texas is important is that it has a massive influence on what makes it into the school curriculum, one of the reasons it is being targeted - it's 24 million population is only bettered by California (somewhere where I think creationism would have a poorer chance of being inserted into the education system). Once the publishers of school books have started the presses rolling for what Texas has ruled needed to be included it becomes a financial disincentive to modify those book for the rest of the US.
I'll do better than that I have emailed the author to check his sources and hopefully look at them directly.