Christian Fundamentalists in positions of power.
sduford on Feb 15 2007 at 10:03 am | Filed under: Politics, Rant, Science
Every time I think there is still hope for America, some stupid Christian Fundamentalist comes around and smacks my hopes right back down into the gutter. I find it incredible that a modern developed country can elect wackos like that on a regular basis. How can these people make such public statements without committing political suicide? Unbelievable. This makes me very very angry.
AUSTIN – The second most powerful member of the Texas House has circulated a Georgia lawmaker’s call for a broad assault on teaching of evolution. House Appropriations Committee Chairman Warren Chisum, R-Pampa, used House operations Tuesday to deliver a memo from Georgia state Rep. Ben Bridges.The memo assails what it calls “the evolution monopoly in the schools.”Mr. Bridges’ memo claims that teaching evolution amounts to indoctrinating students in an ancient Jewish sect’s beliefs.“Indisputable evidence – long hidden but now available to everyone – demonstrates conclusively that so-called ’secular evolution science’ is the Big Bang, 15-billion-year, alternate ‘creation scenario’ of the Pharisee Religion,” writes Mr. Bridges, a Republican from Cleveland, Ga. He has argued against teaching of evolution in Georgia schools for several years.He then refers to a Web site, www.fixedearth.com, that contains a model bill for state Legislatures to pass to attack instruction on evolution as an unconstitutional establishment of religion.
Mr. Bridges also supplies a link to a document that describes scientists Carl Sagan and Albert Einstein as “Kabbalists” and laments “Hollywood’s unrelenting role in flooding the movie theaters with explicit or implicit endorsement of evolutionism.”
By the way, www.fixedearth.com is a website that was created by folks who believe that the earth is at the cente of the Universe and everything else revolves around it. That makes it almost as credible and reliable a source of information as Fox News.
