Connie Morris
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.
Once should be sufficient.
To their complete dismay, I once busted out laughing when I was "condemmed"! -Evil grin-!
You mean "hugh and series" don't you? hehehe
Lovely!
But Kathy Martin?.....WOW! Sigh.
Oh you can never be condemmed enough times! LOL!
And back on topic! I am elated with the results.
Science wins yet once again!
Since when is creationism a scientific theory?
Brilliant!
I'm glad someone is teaching the controversy!
We need to get this into the school sytems of America to counteract the Godless Newtonian/Einsteinian views of how the 6,000 year old Universe works!
One may condemn your actions but NO ONE can condemn you to your ultimate destiny. It's a personal thing, we condemn ourselves by our own beliefs. Everyone is accountable for themself.
"Liberté, égalité, fraternité" placemark
So actually, all you are really doing is TELLING "Darwinists" they are going to Hell, not actually sending them there yourself. I see.....
By the way, isn't a prediction that someone is going to Hell a prophesy, or telling someone's future? And what is it the Bible says about that?
Micah 3:7 (King James Version)
"7Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God."
Jeremiah 14:14
"14Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart."
Hey, RA, she's not bad!
You're delusional, JCEccles.
Hugely.
That's where choice enters in. Believe the warnings are true or bogus. And EVERYONE gets to make that choice by themself for themself.
Speaking of back on topic:
Hopefully, the "average" Republican candidate will come to realize that taking extreme positions, in this subject or others, is political suicide. We should leave the extremism to the Deanocrats - let them remove themselves from the mainstream.
Do you believe that belief is a choice?
Just when you thought the thugs of the ACLU had triumphed over free thought.
He seems to have moved on to a South Carolina thread, now that Kansas is a Lost Cause.
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