Posted on 08/02/2006 3:46:10 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
Darwin won.
Moderate Kansas State Board of Education candidates pulled off a victory Tuesday, gathering enough might to topple the board’s 6-4 conservative majority.
A victory by incumbent Janet Waugh, a Democrat whose district includes parts of Lawrence, and wins by Republican moderates in two districts previously represented by conservatives left the tables turned heading into the Nov. 7 general election.
“If we change the board around, we’ll be able to make decisions that we think are right for our students,” Lawrence school board member Craig Grant said.
Grant had worked to defeat the conservatives who attracted international attention and ridicule for the state after adopting science standards critical of evolution.
Waugh held onto her seat in District 1, rebuffing a challenge from conservative Jesse Hall who, according to the last campaign finance report, had raised about three times more money. But Waugh collected 63 percent of the vote.
“Obviously money can’t buy elections,” she said. “I think the people of Kansas are tired of being the laughingstock not only of the nation but the world.”
Not all the conservatives were defeated.
Conservative incumbent John Bacon held his seat in District 3, which includes parts of Johnson County. Bacon won by a slim margin, with 49 percent. Challengers Harry McDonald, Olathe, the former president of Kansas Citizens for Science, and David Oliphant, also of Olathe, split the remaining vote.
Bacon faces Democrat Don Weiss in the general election.
In the District 5 race to represent a large part of western Kansas, conservative incumbent Connie Morris trailed moderate challenger Sally Cauble who at midnight had 54 percent of the vote with 556 of 609 precincts reporting.
Conservative Ken Willard held his seat in District 7 by a wide margin. He faces Democrat Jack Wempe in November.
And with few votes still to be counted at midnight, moderate Jana Shaver appeared to be the favorite for the District 9 seat. Shaver ran against Brad Patzer, son-in-law of outgoing conservative board member Iris Van Meter. At press time, Shaver had 58 percent of the vote. The winner faces Democrat Kent Runyan in the general election.The five races have attracted national attention as both sides battled for control of the board.Many wanted a shake-up after the 6-4 conservative majority altered the state’s science standards, rewriting the definition of science and adding criticism of evolution.
Proponents of Kansas’ latest standards say they encourage open discussion.
“Students need to have an accurate assessment of the state of the facts in regard to Darwin’s theory,” said John West, a vice president for the Center for Science and Culture at the Seattle-based, anti-evolution Discovery Institute.
The conservative board majority changed the rules on sex education, requiring parental permission before students participate in classes, though districts including Lawrence opted not to change their ways.
And the conservative majority pressed the issue further, considering an “abstinence-until-marriage” approach to sex education.
It also filled the state’s top education administrative seat with Bob Corkins — a conservative activist with no educational background who lobbied against increased school funding.
ROTFLMAO!
ROTFLMAO! That was good. You gotta love old Jack Chick.
Permit me to be of assistance:
All ID wants is an equal opportunity to be heard. Stop the discrimination! Present both theories! Free speech! What are you afraid of? Are you so frightened, is your faith so weak, that you can't allow the other side presented? End the censorship! Teach the controversy! Let the children decide. One day you will learn the Truth, but it will be too late, and I will laugh! I laugh now. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Ahem. On non-evo-crevo threads, this would call for pictures.
Ummm...No.
TOE is a theory, creationism is a belief! The gulf between the two is a vast one indeed.
Everyone condemns themselves and NO ONE can do it for them.
Often times you get what you wish for and then fervently wish you never wished it in the first place! LOL!
No, that comes later. Next is where they advise us to believe in creationism 'to be on the safe side'. As if God was so stupid that he couldn't gauge your motives and sincerity.
Doesn't stop people from issuing bogus warnings.
You're absolutely right, ID should have that opportunity...in a philosophy/religion class. I don't expect to discuss evolution in a philosophy/religion class so why would I discuss ID in a science class?
Flapdoodle! I have been condemned many times by folks who attempted (and failed) to convert me to their particular brand of religion.
Well then, that's it for you!
Oh, you mean vivacious but not lovely???
Hugely.
That murderous bastard started his purge with the French Revolution.
They're conservatives only in the sense that William Jennings Bryan -- a democrat -- would be considered a conservative. He also favored debasing the currency and starting the income tax. These so-called conservatives on the Kansas school board are nothing but old fashioned progressives, like Bryan was. He's their model, not Reagan.
No comment. Both terms are subjective. LOL!!! hehe
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