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To: AndrewC; Ichneumon
AndrewC They obviously have not heard of the Dover decision over there in DarwinDawkinsland.

Unfortunately, you are flat-out wrong on this particular point.

I assure you, the Kitzmiller v. Dover Case received extensive coverage (newprint and broadcast media) here in what you have so charmingly characterised as "DarwinDawkinsland."

What concerned me about the coverage--and which I think should concern you as well--was the opportunity it afforded our mainstream press for yet another orgy of anti-American tweaking and smug superiority. The BBC (British Bolshevik Corporation) is never happier than when it can present American politicians as religious maniacs, ignorant yahoo bumpkins, and charlatan Elmer Gantrys--it all helps feed the socialists' pro-EU/anti-American agenda.

British conservatives, on the other hand, value NATO and the Atlantic Alliance, acknowledge the primary role the US plays both in defending and extending freedom in the world--and we had a hard political fight to secure such support as we could, from our current socialist government, for the global war on terror. And believe me, we were cheered by the decision of the conservative judge in Kitzmiller/Dover, whom I understand was appointed by President Bush, as an antidote to the mindless anti-American rubbish our press was running prior to his ruling.

Ichneumon the First Amendment -- the basis of the Dover decision -- does not hold sway in England.

Indeed not. But we do have our own constitutional guarantees of our ancient liberties. It is ironic that here, where there is not the legal separation of church and state, we no longer have to contend with religionists pursuing political agendas (we had plenty of those nightmares in our history, and it's not quite over in Northern Ireland even today). Or at least we didn't until very recently, when a portion of the Muslim population began lobbying--for state-funding for Darwin-free Islamic schools!

74 posted on 03/10/2006 3:41:44 AM PST by ToryHeartland
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To: ToryHeartland
Unfortunately, you are flat-out wrong on this particular point.

And unfortunately, you and others lack the gene to recognize sarcasm. That is not a characteristic of your countrymen there in DarwinDawkinsland with whom I have had the privelege of serving while Carter, pittoo, and Reagan were our presidents.

As for your mainstream press, I consider most of it in the class of National Enquirer. So whatever is printed by them does not reduce my slumber time in any fashion.

190 posted on 03/10/2006 4:53:58 PM PST by AndrewC (Darwinian logic -- It is just-so if it is just-so.)
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