Texas' Rick Perry: Add intelligent design to teaching

[txindy]

Governor PerfectCoif is playing a risky card here. It'll be interesting to see what happens from this point on. The article makes it out to be a significant decision for the entire country, not just Texas. :eyes: Sure. Anyway, read the entire article. The mention of the "little-known Democratic hopeful" in the second paragraph is highly misleading. Typical for newspapers down here. The "hopeful" won't make it out of the primary. Bell, the leading candidate, opposes GoodHair's stance.

Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican who has made outreach to Christian conservatives a theme of his gubernatorial portfolio, thinks Texas public school students should be taught intelligent design along with evolutionary theory, his office said Thursday.

Three Democratic challengers for governor this year and independent hopeful Kinky Friedman disagreed. Independent candidate Carole Keeton Strayhorn had no immediate comment, and a little-known Democratic hopeful sided with Perry.

The governor's stance emerged in the wake of a federal judge's decision last month that it was unconstitutional for a Pennsylvania school board to require that intelligent design be taught as an alternative to evolution in public school science classes. District Judge John Jones III called intelligent design an idea that cannot be divorced from its religious origins.

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/01/6perry.html

[Village Idiot]

1. Incredible.

I lived in Texas for three looooong years.

Believe me, the average Texan is ignorant enough already without Perry's educational initiatives...

This may not be all bad news, however. This initiative may encourage many Texans to learn to read just to find out about Intelligent Design.

[acmejack]

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[babylonsister]

4. acmejack, thanks for that link! nt

[acmejack]

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[txindy]

10. I will definitely look into it

Thank you very much!

[tanyev]

3. Did he not hear the results of the last school board election

in that Pennsylvania county?

[AValdoux]

6. That just what we need

We can't figure out how to pay for our schools as it is. Our "Robin Hood" plan was thrown out as unconstitutional and our brilliant lawmakers can't agree on a fair way to fund schools. Now Perry wants to embroil them in a legal battle that will cost money the schools don't have to fight a case that got laughed out of court in Pennsylvania.

Oh yeah, I forgot it election time and its time to feed the fundies.


AValdoux

[Loonman]

7. Yeah! Make Texas dumber!

Sounds like a plan!

[zulchzulu]

8. Perry knows where the money is...

Ya throw a bizkit at dem ol' Babble thumpuhs and dey sho' 'nuff give ya back plenny a' greenbacks...yeeeeee freakin' haaawww!

[win_in_06]

9. ...and Perry takes the handoff, now he heads for the line of scrimmage,

wait, he's cutting to the right, trying to get by Scottie's mother...

[Skittles]

11. I don't care if people believe in fairy tales

I care very much, though, when they try to force it into our educational system as FACT