Posted on 08/25/2008 4:20:50 AM PDT by Soliton
In June, Governor Brad Henry vetoed the “Religious Viewpoints Antidiscrimination Act,” a piece of legislature authored by Sen. James Williamson and infamous fundamentalist Rep. Sally Kern.
If passed, this bill would have, among other things, guaranteed that “students may express their beliefs about religion in homework, artwork and other written and oral assignments free from discrimination based on the religious content of their submissions.”
You read that correctly.
Answer on a test that the universe began 6,000 years ago with a few words from the mouth of an invisible, magical entity rather than 13.73 billion years ago with the expansion of energy from gravitational singularity? A-plus!
So it might have been if Gov. Henry hadn’t interceded. I’d like to tell Henry: Thank you from the bottom of my heart, and God bless you.
And to those of you who weren’t kicking up a fuss about the bill or at least complaining about it on your blogs: What were you thinking?
This isn’t the first time Kern and those like her have tried to insinuate superstitious nonsense into the curriculum of our state’s children, and it certainly won’t be the last.
Some of you may be too busy to follow each shot fired in the battle between the proponents of intelligent design the nom de guerre behind which creationism usually hides when its proponents seek to incorporate it into educational curricula — and its detractors.
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When you take the Socialist and Homosexual and Islamist and Abortionists agenda out of our schools then maybe you take a persons right to express their Fundamentalst viewpoint. Until then STFU.
The doctrine of the scriptures of God’s Christ does indeed belong in the public schools. The fallacy of no God leads people into sorrow and death.
May Christ smile upon you too! :)
When did all the churches go out of business?
[This isn’t the first time Kern and those like her have tried to insinuate superstitious nonsense into the curriculum of our state’s children,]
our state’s children,
a democrat or rino wrote this as they beleive the state and not the parents own children.
I think you are confused. It wasn't a political statement, but a scientific one. Why can't parents take their kids to church to learn about religion?
There is no scientific proof for evolution, as it is just a theory. When you think about the complexity of even the smallest of molecules, germs, etc., it is incredible to see design with intent. I’m sorry, but it takes a HUGE leap of faith to think that a huge explosion in space billions of years ago brought order out of chaos. In the real world, an explosion disrupts and brings chaos...which is what one expects, out of order.
The law does not even intend to exclude the teaching of eveolution...so what are they afraid of? A little truth exposing the LIE that the ungodly want to shove down our throats?
"The so-called 'terrorist attacks' of September 11 were a black operation of the BushCheneyCIAHalliburton cabal. Allah Akbar!"
That was so stupid a statement, I hesitated to respond. How did you learn to write without knowing how to read?
The sad thing about this "legislation" is the students already have the right to express their religious beliefs. The first admendment guarantees it. We don't don't need more legislation, we just need to stop the state/courts from usurping and abridging a right we already have!
This legislation wasn’t designed to allow kids to mention Jesus in an English paper, but to prevent them from losing points for putting nonsense in science papers.
With school choice, each parent can decide what is best for his or her child. Freedom!
Damn right too. I dunno why people want to take the easy way out to proselytyzation. If you want to spread the word, do it on your own time, not on my tax money.
In my town alone there must be ten large churches on Main Street. I think kids must be refusing to go to church and their parents are desperate so they try to turn public schools into churches.
And keep it there - behind Church walls, right?
This is the socialist manta of the Marxist left. They conveniently forget the other side of the mythical "separation-of-church-and-state" coin: "or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." In public is where true religion is exercised.
Behold the jackass in its natural environment: the internet.
Education needs more parental decision. And junk science is proven to be a fairy tale. Just look at the old ‘Ice Age’ theory. Is it now safe to say that at least that theory was debunked?
I used to be a die-hard evolutionist until I read one of Ann Coulter’s books. If I recall it was, “How to Talk to a Liberal if You Must”. A real eye opener about evolutionism.
On the other side of the coin, the six of Genisis were not solar days. If one reads Page One carefully, one finds that the days of Genisis were beyond mortal comprehension at the time the Book was written. There was no sun on the first day. There was no manmade time piece of any kind either.
Conclusion: why not give the parents more say of what their kids are taught?
In fact if you wanted to be fair about it and let all sides be heard, Rastafari would lend itself quite well to certain kinds of team teaching situations; a bio teacher looking for a way to put 30 teenagers into the right frame of mind to be indoctrinated into something as idiotic as evolutionism could walk across the hall to the Rasta class for a box of spliffs....
The dialectic is between evolution and mathematics. Professing belief in evolution at this juncture amounts to the same thing as claiming not to believe in modern mathematics, probability theory, and logic. It's basically ignorant.
No, there are TV ministries, religious radio stations, direct mail, soap boxes on corners. They're okay by me and the Constitution. It is unconstitutional to teach Creationism in school and ID is just Creationism. Conservatives believe in the constitution.
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