Long time coming...

Official El Salvador apology for Oscar Romero's murder

It's about time. Too bad the Texas State Board of Education is making sure that children in that state (and possibly others due to the size of Texas's buying power in the textbook market) may never learn about Archbishop Romero, his pleas for peace and charity, or his murder by a right wing death squad.

It's amazing ...how our revisionist history marches onward with no regards for the truth and no chance for reconciliation and an ability to learn from history to avoid past mistakes. In my mind, being truthful about our past and learning from it is much more constructive than white-washing inconvenient parts so that we can feel all warm and fuzzy inside when we sing the national anthem at baseball games and wear our flag pins.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/6922748.html

Look no further than the comments section of the above editorial from a Houston newspaper to understand what some people want for this country. How comes theocracy is bad when other countries do it?