Results of the Dover, Pa., election should make members of the Kansas State Board of Education nervous. Voters in Pennsylvania ousted all eight Republican school board members who supported requiring an intelligent design statement be read in biology classes. The board’s decision sparked a lawsuit and has brought a lot of negative attention to the state.
Sounds familiar, huh? Kansas voters should send the same message in 2006 and oust the school board members who voted Tuesday to dumb down our science standards.
(FYI per an earlier blog question: The six State BOE members who voted for the junk standards were John Bacon of Olathe, Connie Morris of St. Francis, Kathy Martin of Clay Center, Kenneth Willard of Hutchinson, Iris Van Meter of Thayer, and Steve Abrams of Arkansas City. Bacon, Morris, Willard and Van Meter are up for re-election next year.)
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Thank you Mellisa!That was nice, and you didn’t even have to cuss at me for asking.
See ya Iris, one more year and you’re outta there.
Be carefull calling it Junk Standards! People will get very upset at that remark.
But I believe that Kansas will revert back and will follow what Dover did.
Just a matter of time.
The 2004 election gave all these people the idea that the majority of the country was on their side. The reality is that people usually vote on a single issue (which is bad) and that issue is different for everyone. They had a false sense of security in believing that everyone who voted for them had their exact moral and religious belief’s and they now have carte blanche to do as they wish in their respective offices.Yesterday’s elections across the country along with falling approval ratings should wake them up and scare them. If they don’t, then they are further out of touch with reality than anyone thought.
Dear Mel,
Interesting comment, adding facts about the theory of evolution to the standards some how ‘dumb(s)’ them down!
I aggree, we can’t actually put facts in the standards that disagree with the holy grail of science, evolution!
Vote ‘em out!
Yup, Esod believes that the Earth, the sun, and the entire universe is only 10,000 years old.
No junk science there.
God only knows what esod thinks or believes. I don’t think anybody else really cares. But I hope the BOE has enough intelligence among them to see the handwritting on the wall and be very afraid. If any of the above mentioned twits gets re-elected, their constituancy needs to be tested to see if they got into Connie’s drug stash. These people have humiliated Kansas. Time for them to go. But as I’ve said before, Kansans have very short memories and the ID mob is persistant. They’ll be back and we’ll be humiliated again. Bet on it.
Don’t forget that Gallileo was persecuted by “THE CHURCH” for suggesting that the earth revolved around the sun instead of the other way around. Heresy! Anyone that disagrees with the non-scientific teachings of THE CHURCH are obvious heathens. Just ask Connie Morris….
Has anyone listened to the radio (XM or internet)? They are bashing Kansas mercioulsy, and it is hysterical. We brought it on ourselves. We allowed the fools of the BoE to make fools of us. On the bright side here is a link to the future of science in Kansas.
http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm
Oops, sorry about the typo. Hit the wrong button and posted it before I proofread it.
The “Kansas & evolution” story is on the front pages of the on-line versions of the Washington Post and New York Times. Makes ya proud!
First Dover, PA . . . Next KANSAS.
I’m a conservative but am voting these single-issue IDiots out.
Evolution is verifiable and this whole arguement proves it. Every few years we get a handful of nuts on the State Board of Education. These folks cause the state to mutate into an entity whose existence cannot be supported or sustained as it is not suitable to the environment. Consequently, the state evolves to weed the unsustainable mutations out.The next election fof members of the state board will again prove this out.
The only thing about the new members of the BOE, they didn’t not campaign on Intelligent Design. Not that I can remember, but when they got in, they made it their number one priority.
I am sure that they told what their agenda was everytime they spoke in a church. Just not in public, when did deceit become a Christian value?
Dog,Has been for centuries! Any sin that works for the greater glory of God is no sin. In other words, churches can lie to further their agenda.
Fortunately, God will be the judge and not you.
Yeah, but in the meantime, a lot of people get punished and killed by religious zealots.
I liked the bumper sticker I saw a few days ago. “So many right-wing Christians, so few lions” I should have asked where they got it.
Anyone see that Pat Robertson has told Dover that because they voted against ID they shouldn’t be surprised if God punishes them with some sort of disaster.
What type of fu**ed up God do Pat and his followers believe in? Would you, as a parent, kill your kid’s puppy because he didn’t listen to you? Fundamentalist, evangelical protestant Christianity has ended perverting the message more than the Roman Catholic Church, against which they rebelled, did.
Since God takes his marching orders from Pat Robertson, we all better not piss off Pat!
What a simple minded zealot.If something bad happens it was because of Godless heathens.If something good happens it’s because of the faithfull flocks.What if nothing at all happens?Is God then just on vacation or something?How’s this idiot feel when bad things happen to him or his, is it because the heathens in Dover made a pact with the devil?If people are dumb enough to buy into this guy’s line of bullshit then we may as well go back to worshiping greek mythological gods.
What ever happened to Dr. Gerald Mann and common sense religion? He could reach even my cynical heart with common sense.