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To: OriginalIntent
"hardcore evolutionists" who claim to be for small government to justify their liberal [social?] stands, yet stand in great support for and are always talking about the public school system which is a huge, liberal, coercive government monstrosity.

Well, again, you can't necessarily equate a belief in evolution with liberal social views. At most, you can equate it with those who do not accept a strict literal interpetation of the Old Testament account of Creation, but that has nothing to do with politics or whether the government should enforce the teaching of one curriculum over another.

I don't think it's the federal government's responsibility to get involved in schools at all, since the Constitution nowhere gives it that power. That probably is a small libertarian view, but it also allows that local schools could teach creation or alien seed pods or whatever they want. I think it's up to each state to decide what mush they want to serve.

But that's currently not the law, and probably never will be. Once we surrender local control to the federal government, we never get it back.

My point is that there are plenty of conservative folks who are convinced of evolution, and it clouds the discussion to paint them as something else when it's just not true.

177 posted on 08/02/2008 3:57:17 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: Dog Gone
I don't think it's the federal government's responsibility to get involved in schools at all,...

I agree with that.

Liberals and their evolutionist allies (not all) however are extremely zealous concerning centralized, top-down control of public schools and bring the big government public school trump card into every thread.

It is almost their ultimate pat hand, just short of a liberal judicial straight flush.

180 posted on 08/02/2008 4:21:03 PM PDT by OriginalIntent (Undo the ACLU revision of the Constitution. If you agree with the ACLU revisions, you are a liberal)
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