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By: Texas: careening toward doom | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Texas: careening toward doom | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:14:31 +0000

[...] Texas had its brief shining moment of light when the state Senate rejected creationist goofball Don McLeroy’s bid to once again head up [...]

By: John Paradox

John Paradox — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:24:48 +0000

Cruising the web (you know, that series of tubes) I wandered over to Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and found another attempt to bring religion (no, not Islam) into schools. This time, it’s forcing the “Christian Nation” myth into Social Studies classes, featuring David Barton, who “argues that separation of church and state is a “myth” and laws should be based on Scripture.”

For the full article: http://www.au.org/media/church-and-state/archives/2009/06/religious-right-targets.html

J/P=?

By: StevoR

StevoR — Sun, 31 May 2009 04:18:58 +0000

@ # 25. Liz D :

Not all republicans are crazies, either.

Maybe not absolutely all but far too many of them are. Any sane Republican is definitely an ignored minority in that mob. Plus, unfortunately, not only are the Republican ‘crazies’ too numerous they are also the one’s in charge of the party.

It is hardly either a secret or news that the fundamentalist Religious Wrong and the fanatical pro-Israel neo-con mob hold undue sway over the Republican – or as I term ‘em the Retardican party – in your country.

Generally speaking, the Republican party is the party of religious extremists and anti-science. No doubt about it.

Want proof? Just look at who they nominated last time – an elderly fool who confused a planetarium with an “overhead projector” and constantly criticised the idea of spending any money on it for science education and, *shudder*, that creationist redneck hickette, Sarah Palin.

By: Lawyer

Lawyer — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:00:41 +0000

1+ to Dan the Firsts comment…

By: kuhnigget

kuhnigget — Fri, 29 May 2009 23:12:11 +0000

@ torbjörn:

“There is a certain amount of innuendo in the criticism of Dr. McLeroy,” Sen. Steve Ogden, R-Bryan, said. “To a certain degree it’s a slur.”

Yeah, I always find that attitude pretty ironic. It’s okay to deny plainly overwhelming evidence that’s tested, retested, supported over and over again, but dare to suggest that belief in spirits and angels and supermen in the sky might be a little out of sync with reality and suddenly you’re a religious bigot, when in fact that epithet should be reserved exclusively for people who take mythology as literal truth and insist upon foisting their fantasies on others.

By: Torbjörn Larsson, OM

Torbjörn Larsson, OM — Fri, 29 May 2009 22:49:44 +0000

But his supporters said there was an anti-religious tinge to the opposition because McLeroy is a conservative Christian who does not believe in evolution.

“There is a certain amount of innuendo in the criticism of Dr. McLeroy,” Sen. Steve Ogden, R-Bryan, said. “To a certain degree it’s a slur.”

Gaah! Oogh! … Puh! I believe my brain just rotated in my skull, before returning to life again.

In what way is “not believe in evolution” not a religious slur on science?

[Careful with those links, Phil. Or you have to write a book about "Death from the web!"]

By: Jan in CT

Jan in CT — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:28:49 +0000

One of the really sad facts in all of this is: the Texas school population is so large that the buying power of the Texas State Board of Education determines, to a large extent, the content of text books used by the rest of us. Text book publishers can’t afford to publish different versions of science text books so the demands of nutcases such as these, arguably their largest single customer, influences what children here in Connecticut read in their text books.

Another argument for some other system of determining curriculums.