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Gore Film Sparks Parents' Anger - Showing 'Inconvenient Truth' Would Require Counterpoint
The Washington Post ^ | January 25, 2007 | Blaine Harden

Posted on 01/25/2007 7:14:26 AM PST by RDTF

FEDERAL WAY, Wash., Jan. 24 -- Frosty E. Hardiman is neither impressed nor surprised that "An Inconvenient Truth," the global-warming movie narrated by former vice president Al Gore, received an Oscar nomination this week for best documentary.

"Liberal left is all over Hollywood," he grumbled a few hours after the nomination was announced.

Hardiman, a parent of seven here in the southern suburbs of Seattle, has himself roiled the global-warming waters. It happened early this month when he learned that one of his daughters would be watching "An Inconvenient Truth" in her seventh-grade science class.

"No you will not teach or show that propagandist Al Gore video to my child, blaming our nation -- the greatest nation ever to exist on this planet -- for global warming," Hardiman wrote in an e-mail to the Federal Way School Board. The 43-year-old computer consultant is an evangelical Christian who says he believes that a warming planet is "one of the signs" of Jesus Christ's imminent return for Judgment Day.

His angry e-mail (along with complaints from a few other parents) stopped the film from being shown to Hardiman's daughter.

The teacher in that science class, Kay Walls, says that after Hardiman's e-mail she was told by her principal that she would receive a disciplinary letter for not following school board rules that require her to seek written permission to present "controversial" materials in class.

The e-mail also pressured the school board to impose a ban on screenings of the film for the district's 22,500 students.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: indoctrination; junkscience; littleredschoolhouse; pseudoscience
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You go Mr Hardiman!!
1 posted on 01/25/2007 7:14:27 AM PST by RDTF
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The 43-year-old computer consultant is an evangelical Christian who says he believes that a warming planet is "one of the signs" of Jesus Christ's imminent return for Judgment Day.

I must have missed that passage in the NT.

2 posted on 01/25/2007 7:15:58 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

Thing will get plenty warm for a lot of folks AFTER Jesus returns.


3 posted on 01/25/2007 7:18:07 AM PST by XR7
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To: Sherman Logan
I must have missed that passage in the NT.

Second chapter of Jude?

4 posted on 01/25/2007 7:18:45 AM PST by N. Theknow ((Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.))
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Second chapter of Jude?

Umm, where??

5 posted on 01/25/2007 7:23:30 AM PST by Egon ("If all your friends were named Cliff, would you jump off them??" - Hugh Neutron)
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To: Sherman Logan

Jesus hates the cold weather.


6 posted on 01/25/2007 7:24:26 AM PST by ll_t
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Still, it's no more wacky than what the environMENTALists believe about global warming.


7 posted on 01/25/2007 7:24:47 AM PST by The Old Hoosier (Right makes might)
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I do find it somewhat funny that this guys name is "Frosty" and he's bitching about global warming.


8 posted on 01/25/2007 7:25:21 AM PST by ll_t
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To: ll_t

With those sandals and robe, it has to be warm outside for him.


9 posted on 01/25/2007 7:26:00 AM PST by Wacka
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To: RDTF

>Frosty E. Hardiman is neither impressed nor surprised that "An Inconvenient Truth," the global-warming movie narrated by former vice president Al Gore, received an Oscar nomination this week for best documentary.<

The guy's name is Frosty, and he's going after AlBore's Global Warming movie?

Sweet.


10 posted on 01/25/2007 7:26:24 AM PST by Darnright
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Still, it's no more wacky than what the environMENTALists believe about global warming.

The similarities between religious apocalyptikooks and environmental nutcases are striking in many areas.

11 posted on 01/25/2007 7:27:14 AM PST by Strategerist
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To: RDTF

I managed to get my kids school to not show Inconvenient truth and Supersize Me. Pissed off some liberals, but I told them I (we) had a team of attorneys ready to pounce if they spread their liberal proaganda crap based on junk science, at best. It was really easy, actually.


12 posted on 01/25/2007 7:27:23 AM PST by Fierce Allegiance ("Campers laugh at clowns behind closed doors.")
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Screaming something is against your religeon is what works in this country, so if that is what he had to say to keep them from showing that propaganda, then good.


13 posted on 01/25/2007 7:28:00 AM PST by RDTF (Quote of the year: "Halp us Jon Carry - We R stuck hear n Irak.")
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Umm, where??

Oops. Maybe it was III Corinthians.

14 posted on 01/25/2007 7:29:18 AM PST by N. Theknow ((Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.))
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I do find it somewhat funny that this guys name is "Frosty"...

Maybe his wife's a Hottie?

15 posted on 01/25/2007 7:29:23 AM PST by Fresh Wind (All we are sa-a-a-ying, is give Beast a chance.)
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"And He spake, 'I shall send forth my son again preceded by increasing levels of carbon dioxide in thine atmosphere disguised as coal plant emissions.'"


16 posted on 01/25/2007 7:32:56 AM PST by ll_t
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Al Gore's Penguin Army

What is Al Gore's new movie, An Inconvenient Truth, all about?
Global Warming? The Environment? Or something much more BORING?
See Al Gore's Penguin Army learn how crazy this flick really is...

17 posted on 01/25/2007 7:34:28 AM PST by XR7
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There are plenty of scientific reasons why the Algore movie is BS.

Why did they have to pick this one kookball to quote?

I can tell you.

It's to delegitimize any opposition to the stupid movie.


18 posted on 01/25/2007 7:35:26 AM PST by GovernmentIsTheProblem (Now accepting tagline donations.)
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His daughter's science teacher, meanwhile, said she is struggling to find authoritative articles to counter the information in the Gore documentary. "The only thing I have found so far is an article in Newsweek called 'The Cooling World,' " Walls said. It was written 37 years ago

Apparently the reporter and this teacher are unable to use wikipedia. List of scientists opposing global warming consensus

19 posted on 01/25/2007 7:36:12 AM PST by tellw
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To: N. Theknow

Interesting question; will the new Earth have ice on it? Did the pre-fall Paradise Earth have it?


20 posted on 01/25/2007 7:40:21 AM PST by DManA
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