Today’s Tea Partying Creationist Republican in Politics update:

Tea party Republican runs for Fairfax school board

On Nov. 8, Fairfax voters will choose three candidates to fill countywide “at-large’’ seats on the school board. […]

Republican-endorsed Lin-Dai Kendall is the only at-large candidate I’ve talked with who has identified herself as a member of the tea party movement. I asked her how her political beliefs inform her views on school policy.

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What sets Kendall apart from other candidates is her affiliation with the tea party, which she describes as a movement “geared toward restoring America’s ideals.”

She raises questions about school curricula — particularly in government and social studies classes — […]

“We are a nation founded on Judeo-Christian values, and that has been downplayed extraordinarily in my view,” said Kendall, an architect and mother of four. “We are teaching revisionist history.”

She wants U.S. history classes to do a better job teaching about the Founding Fathers, and she wants government classes to emphasize the exceptionalism of the United States and its free-market economy.

“It’s the one system around the world that is proven to create wealth,” she said. [really?]

The Constitution, she said, should be taught as the immutable law of the land, not as a living document that can change with the times.

Her beliefs are rooted in broader feelings about the country’s political direction, she said.

“I think the recognition of the rugged individualism that made America great has been completely written over,” she said. […]

Asked about the role of religion in public schools, she said she believes in secular public schools and the separation of church and state. She said she would support teaching intelligent design and creationism alongside evolution and the Big Bang — an issue that divided school board candidates in the 1990s but has since largely disappeared from the public conversation over schools.

“I think that we should put out all the theories because that’s what they are, theories,” she said. “I don’t want to tell them what is, in terms of our origins, because we don’t know.”

Kendall, who serves as president of the Republican Women of Clifton, […]

She believes in separation of church and state… so she wants creationism taught in public schools.

Why does my head hurt?