Those silly Texas and Georgia lawmakers...

[icicole]

So apparently Texas Rep. Warren Chisum (from Pampa) agrees with Georgia Rep. Ben Bridges that evolution is a religion and therefore not eligible for teaching in public schoolsAll of the links used for their arguments (which revolve around a big bang theory being a large part of Pharisee/Kabbalah doctrine, therefore rendering evolution theory part

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[p3rlm0nk]

Warren Chisum is a name that rings a lot of bells in my memory, I seem to recall him being behind a bunch of other crazy things that made a lot of ruckus in the press and then died in committee. I guess he's either a true believer who pushes for things far past the point of reasonable defeat or somebody who is willing to take an extreme stance in the name of PR (and believes that any publicity is good publicity).

Oh well, I guess for what we pay the Lege it's cheap entertainment. ;)

[fairgoldberry]

I'd love to know what happened to parents teaching faith at home.

I imagine things like this have nothing to do with what they want *their* children taught, and more with wanting a forced indoctrination into the tenets of their faith for other people's children. You know, those other people who aren't teaching their kids the right values. It's not, of course, that they don't like non-Christians. If they'd just teach their children good Christian values then no one would mind them at all, you know!

Missouri, a few years ago, floated the "Let's put the Ten Commandments in our schools!" nonsense. My mother called me to rant, and I told her I'd needlepoint her, "Thus My Holy Rede fulfill; an it harm none, do what thou will," to hang above it. She said, "I've been in this district for ten years. I have a Master's Degree and more tenure than God. I'm five years from retiring. Go for it!" But the measure died before it got any more significant than a state representative shooting his mouth off.

Much love,
Rowan