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1. Missouri has amended its constitution as follows:
http://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/2012ballot/fulltext_1.pdf
Most of the rights mentioned here are already protected by the US Constitution and other laws. What's new is that "no student shall be compelled to perform or participate in academic assignments or educational presentations that violate his or her religious beliefs". If a kid wants to avoid thinking about a particular topic, say evolution or global warming, new he or she can easily do so. Of course, that was the whole idea of the amendment.
2. Some Kentucky legislators don't want evolution in the state science standards. State senator David Givens said: "I would hope that creationism is presented as a theory in the classroom, in a science classroom, alongside evolution." State Representative Ben Waite said: "The theory of evolution is a theory, and ... is not science -- Darwin made it up." Both of these idiots are Republicans, thank Darwin.
Kentucky is the only State where teachers are officially encouraged to teach creationism as science:
http://www.lrc.ky.gov/KRS/158-00/177.PDF
Curtland1015
(4,404 posts)Believing in God is one thing, but wow... I feel bad for those kids.
YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)...is that it is a modern phenomenon.
Lionel Mandrake
(4,076 posts)but I suspect the the drive to return to the fundamentals has been around forever.
In 1517, Martin Luther wanted to restore earlier standards in the Roman Catholic Church. Hence the "Reformation".
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Fundies want to return to that golden age... dragging us with them.
AndyTiedye
(23,500 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,516 posts)These people are barking mad.
This post reminds me of a saying I've heard: As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)who are getting real educations for spots at universities and eventually jobs. They are making things harder for their own kids.
Lionel Mandrake
(4,076 posts)When I was in high school, no teacher would dare speak the bad "E" word.
There are still lots of creationists teaching biology, and not just in high schools. I know one who teaches in a community college. He doesn't teach evolution; he attacks it.
A biologist I know at a CSU campus says their beginning course for biology majors has to emphasize evolution, because the kids coming out of high school need remedial education in the subject.
LiveNudePolitics
(285 posts)The crazy personhood and abortion laws the same gang passes with more and more frequency are also detrimental to our society. Surprising from the same folks who want fiscal conservatism in govt......Won't all the kids born as a result of abortion bans and Planned Parenthood underfunding cause additional debt? Why would we ever allow the procreation police to roll back reproductive rights? http://livenudepolitics.com/?p=2155
YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)They want the government to enforce "morality" (aka far-right Christian theocracy) on the population.
When they say "fiscal conservative', that's code for cutting programs that they don't like-namely, social spending on the poor, public education, etc. They are happy to use government in the service of their own warped ideology.
Volaris
(10,266 posts)can any "choice" forced down by government REALLY be a morally correct choice? I think not, and it undermines the idea that Free Will is a good (or even existent) thing, which supports causal determinism as a basis for, well, basically EVERYTHING, which shreds any argument for Creationism as a science (or explanation for anything).
Watching these people destroy their own arguments is so much fun I almost think I should be charged a fee.
Lionel Mandrake
(4,076 posts)although your post is introducing a new topic.
Nice website, by the way.
LiveNudePolitics
(285 posts)I'm not entirely sure, but aren't all those "Teen Mom" cast-members from the Midwest?
Lionel Mandrake
(4,076 posts)I think it means states that are about twice as far from the Pacific as from the Atlantic Ocean. Maybe it should be called the "Mideast".
According to Wikipedia, the cast member of Teen Mom are Maci Bookout from Tennessee, Farrah Abraham from Iowa, Catelynn Lowell from Michigan, and Amber Portwood from Indiana.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teen_Mom
1-Old-Man
(2,667 posts)And so the question becomes, do they want their children to grow up into a worse world than the one we did? To have once known something and then to have purposefully become ignorant of it deprives the world of its most important resource, information.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,516 posts)So it doesn't really matter what kind of world they live in before that happens.
Lionel Mandrake
(4,076 posts)why should we worry about about mass extinctions, overpopulation, global warming, and other such trivia?
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)their asses off when they read things like this. You know, those places that believe in SCIENCE. It would be funny if it weren't so tragic.
Lionel Mandrake
(4,076 posts)is how dumb the Americans are.