Talk About Dumbing Down.

[StormInateacup]

For the benefit of the members here who don't Facebook, Meddy from Yahoo just posted this article there:

thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/03/21/448803/tennessee-passes-monkey-bill-to-teach-the-controversy-on-evolution-and-climate-science/?mobile=nc

On Monday, the Tennessee state legislature passed legislation that requires public schools to teach the “controversy” over evolution, global warming, and human cloning:
The Senate voted 24-8 for HB368, which sponsor Sen. Bo Watson, R-Hixson, says will provide guidelines for teachers answering students’ questions about evolution, global warming and other scientific subjects. Critics call it a “monkey bill” that promotes creationism in classrooms.

I'm sorry but for those of us outside the US this is akin to a really bad joke about "Stoopid Amurikans".

There is no way that even in outback Queensland (our Deep North) any one is even advocating for this kind of revisionist bullshit. How the hell did they get such a stranglehold on the South? (And bits of the Mid West too from the looks of things).

[StormInateacup]

24-8!!!
Fuxake it wasn't even close to being defeated!

[admin]

The religious right is doing everything in their power to take this country back in time 200 years. Arizona just passed a LAW determining pregnancy began AT THE FIRST DAY OF THEIR LAST PERIOD.

I am terrified of what is happening in all seriousness.

[StormInateacup]

Me too. You're beginning to make parts of Saudi bloody Arabia look like a moderate theocracy.

[Sister Mary Meds]

We Murkins are just trying to balance things out, by having a third world educational system to go along with our third world health care system.

[StormInateacup]

Apr 11, 2012 16:17:43 GMT -5 Sister Mary Meds said:

We Murkins are just trying to balance things out, by having a third world educational system to go along with our third world health care system.

That's actually so true it's terrifying. Poorly educated ignorant people are far easier to oppress than well informed highly literate ones.

[admin]

Apr 11, 2012 16:20:13 GMT -5 StormInateacup said:

Apr 11, 2012 16:17:43 GMT -5 Sister Mary Meds said:

We Murkins are just trying to balance things out, by having a third world educational system to go along with our third world health care system.

That's actually so true it's terrifying. Poorly educated ignorant people are far easier to oppress than well informed highly literate ones.

Give the Lady a cigar!

[StormInateacup]

Can I not have a spliff in its stead?

[admin]

Of course!
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[Random Panther]

That shite is even infecting my country. It's no longer just ''stoopid Amuricans''.

[StormInateacup]

Well actually they're still teaching Scripture in my kids high school and they need a note from home to be excluded from it.

I wrote a doozy.

;D

[Random Panther]

I'd love to read that,actually I'd love to be a fly on the wall as they read it.

[admin]

Tennessee Republicans have gone on a culture war rampage. The Republican controlled legislature has introduced bills that discriminate against homosexuals, a bill that allow the teaching of creationism in science class (which has since become law), and bills that restrict abortion. But now, Republicans are going even further by introducing language in a sex education bill that would define kissing and holding hands as gateways to sexual activity. The bill also bans sex education teachers from promoting contraception.

According to WMC-TV, “Tennessee senators approved an update to the state’s abstinence-based sex education law that includes warnings against “gateway sexual activity.” In a new family life instructions bill, holding hands and kissing could be considered gateways to sex.”
www.addictinginfo.org/2012/04/13/tennessee-bill-defines-kissing-and-holding-hands-as-gateways-to-sexual-activity-bans-teaching-contraception-in-sex-ed/

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I am still more than willing to go in with a group and buy an island if anyone is interested!!!

[admin]

Next up, dancing. I mean, that HAS to be gateway sexual activity. And rock n roll! The devils own music! And tv shows that have sexually explicit material. OH! And those nasty perfume commercials!

I can't wait to see how far these lunatics try to go.