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Posted on 02/07/2009 10:04:30 AM PST by EveningStar
...Apparently, in Texas you can be astoundingly dishonest and advocate teaching pseudo-science to children, and still be reappointed to a job you’re not remotely qualified to hold...
(Excerpt) Read more at littlegreenfootballs.com ...
Isn’t it frustrating, that in Texas we can do what we want?
“It’s one of the GOP’s biggest problems, and it isn’t only happening in Texas. The religious far right is intent on dragging the Republican Party back into the Dark Ages.”
Wow! This was posted on LGF? Someone is about to get his Conservative Sheriff badge confiscated. Is that tar I smell warming?
He’s difficult to understand. Just about the time you are ready to vote him out of office he goes and does something like this.
Yeah, I’m begining to see that social conservatism and “Republicans” are not a very good match.
It’s s reprint of a blurb for U.S. News.
Yes, having a view on origins different than scientific orthodoxy could anger the Furher and his goosestepping followers in the acadamy. Don’t those flat-earthers know that the science is in? We’ll have no freedom of thought around here! SIEG HEIL!
I’m sure you didn’t intend to create an evo flypaper thread, lol.
What is it, about the State of Texas determining its own educational agenda, that you find bothersome?
Social conservatism is no more of a good match for transnational corporatism, than it is for postnational progressivism. The two are the left and right wings of the same bird of prey.
Whether Perry appoints an evolution or creation supporter is really a state issue and no concern of the federal government...
Quite frankly I want a state, local and federal government that stays the hell out of my paycheck,out of my home and out of my life!!!!!
Let me believe what I want to believe....
“little green footballs” is pseudo-conservative. they would rather take pot-shots at genuine conservatives than defeat the liberals.
lgf is a cancer on the conservative movement.
“Isn’t it frustrating, that in Texas we can do what we want?”
You’re right. It shouldn’t be. It used to only be childish liberals that thought with that envious mindset.
“social conservatism”
what other conservatism is there? do you honestly think you can have America without morals? do you honestly think you can protect America from islamonazis & other enemies foreign & domestic while the culture disappears in a drug-and-porn induced haze?
conservatism is meaningless without core principles about the way a society should conduct itself.
these aren’t meaningless slogans you know. nations & empires fall because of cultural debauchery. to moan about “social conservatism” is to have a half-baked approach to saving your country, your culture, and your civilization.
have your own opinions by all means, but don’t be so short-sighted as to denigrate people who realize that you can’t have fiscal conservatism or security conservatism without cultural conservatism.
Do you think that's the point of the article?
God Bless Texas. I’ve got an account over there on LGF, but my visits are getting fewer and fewer due mainly to Charles’ idiotic obsession with creationism.
They are plenty of conservatives who aren't thrilled either.
Who said anything about the Feds?
Good point. Unbridled corporatism (nothing to do with free markets, since most of these corporations thrive on government granted monopolies and through illegal but not enforced activity) has nothing to do with conservatism and has nothing to do with the Marxist left wing either. You could see the battle of corporatism against conservatives in the Prop 8 battle when PG&E (gov't granted monopoly) donated $100,000 to the campaign against Prop 8.
Ping.
Where’s your counterpart? :)
And where are they taking those feathers?
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Sorry, but it’s evolution that is pseudo-science in search of supporting evidence.
At its core is evangelical aethiesm, and it remains propped up only by intimidating and silencing any critic who comes forward to challenge it.
Watch Ben Stein’s flick, Expelled.
Have you noticed the Randians?
Texas is one of the few states that gets it right, LGF is a joke.........study the second law of thermodynamics and Barry Setterfields speed of light slowing down and numerous uncovered lies of evolution in biological fields and creation is more science than what we are lied classrooms as children...........
I think anyone who finds this an unsatisfactory state of affairs should immediately remove his children from Texas’s public schools.
“Have you noticed the Randians?”
OK, I’m interested. What exactly is it that you are defending with that statement? drugs/porn/abortion?
What license is it that you feel ayn rand gives you?
Hey, it’s easier than being conservative.
In the spirit of our dear, departed Coyoteman, perhaps certain aspects of biology should be treated as religion, in an attempt at protecting it from criticism. That way, students who don’t wish to be exposed to it, are not forced to do so.
We are kindred spirits as I got really sick of the obsession you mentioned. The Rudy love and the formidable number of abortionists on the site was disconcerting as well. FR is far superior and twice as informative, so I thought, “why bother with LGF anymore?”.
Then you have some catching up to do. That ship sailed long ago and has been held captive by far more violent storms than the Evo/Creation debate. But for the knowledge of the Theory of Evolution, there would be no ____________? (Fill the blank with something beneficial to mankind that would not have ever happened otherwise)
A tidbit from their Jan. meeting:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/012309dntexevolution.1d0cd401.html
AUSTIN – In a major defeat for social conservatives, a sharply divided State Board of Education voted Thursday to abandon a longtime state requirement that high school science teachers cover what some critics consider to be “weaknesses” in the theory of evolution.
Under the science curriculum standards recommended by a panel of science educators and tentatively adopted by the board, biology teachers and biology textbooks would no longer have to cover the “strengths and weaknesses” of Charles Darwin’s theory that man evolved from lower forms of life.
Wildcatclan = I agree. His obsession is out of control. Any detractors are canceled. LGF is simply a bunch of Liberals that are afraid of Muslims.
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I’m not a Randian I don’t believe that society should be lead by a bitter lady who wrote a fictional novel, I was just curious if you’ve been paying attention to them.
OK, I see. She seems like she was a smart lady sure. You’re exactly right though; it would be very hollow to base one’s idea of the world on some writer. People that read Rand have always seemed like solid conservatives to me. But it’s true that there’s an undertone of atheism, but that probably just makes her more acceptable to the chattering liberals. Like “hey, she’s a conservative, but she’s also a woman & an atheist, so maybe you can hear it”
“Apparently, in Texas you can be astoundingly dishonest and advocate teaching pseudo-science to children, and still be reappointed to a job you’re not remotely qualified to hold...”
Why not? I worked for B.O. He’s gunna make Jimmy Carter look good.
Fortunately, my daughter will graduate from high school in May here in Texas and will escape before these nuts are able to force this creationism insanity on her. There's already enough wrong with the Texas public school system and this will just make it a whole lot worse.
If she were to still be in school when creationism is forced into the curriculum, I would have been first in line to file the class action lawsuit.
I’ve been an engineer for over twenty years and have two master’s degrees in engineering. I’ve never encountered any practical problem in a chemical plant or refinery where the issue of evolution or creation had anything to do with the solution. I think any theory, law, hypothesis, or whatever description one wants to give to evolution should be open to question, but I neither know nor care whether evolution is fundamentally sound.
A poetic tradgedy, indeed.
That species appear suddenly and fully-formed in the fossil record is conclusive proof Darwin was wrong. The fossil record confirms the concept that species were created in their present form by an intelligent creator.
Take the evolutionary BS somewhere else because it isn't welcome at a conservative website.
“she basically became a fascist”
in what sense?
“Evolution is merely another example of Marxist indoctrination being used to advance a leftist agenda”
When the communists would take over a new country, they wouldn’t teach the kids about communism right away - they would always start by getting them to believe in evolution. Without God people are much more likely to accept the state as a god.
I think LGF fits in just fine with the conservative movement. But then I don't look for 100% agreement with anyone on anything.
Ok....what’s the point then?
Yeah 100% agreement is always hard!
But there have been a variety of things from johnson, which have made it clear for me that he tries to throw random screwdrivers into the works whenever he feels like it. “doesn’t work well with others”
she believed, her way was the right way anything else is lesser or immoral thought. Which we all know is completely wrong.
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