Quote:AUSTIN, Tex., Nov. 5 (AP) - The Texas Board of Education approved new health textbooks for the state's high schools and middle schools on Friday after the publishers agreed to change wordings in the texts to depict marriage strictly as the union of a man and a woman.
The decision involves two of the biggest textbook publishers and is another example of Texas' exerting its market influence as the nation's second-largest buyer of textbooks. Officials say the decision could affect hundreds of thousands of books in Texas alone.
On Thursday, a board member said that proposed new books ran counter to a Texas law banning the recognition of gay civil unions because the texts used terms like "married partners" instead of "husband and wife."
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Both Texas and Calfornia buy a lot of public school textbooks and hence have lot of clout in determining the content of these textbooks.
Do you think the Texas Board of Education has a right to define marriage for the country?
Textbook publishers say that publishing state specific versions of standard texts would be terribly expensive.
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