A leading candidate for the Texas Board of Education has claimed that President Obama worked as a gay prostitute and that school shootings are the result of teaching evolution. Retired teacher Mary Lou Bruner, 68, has also called for a ban on Islam in America. "I don't intend to apologize," said Bruner, who will help determine curricula and the content of textbooks, "because I still believe my statements were accurate."
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