Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together...

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"Outsiders are telling public school families that we must follow the rich man's elitist religion of evolution, that we no longer have what the Kentucky Constitution says is the right to worship almighty God," Singleton said. "Instead, this fascist method teaches that our children are the property of the state."

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Another opponent, Dena Stewart-Gore, suggested that the standards will make religious students feel ostracized. “The way socialism works is it takes anybody that doesn’t fit the mold and discards them,” she said, per the The Courier-Journal. “We are even talking genocide and murder here, folks.”

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Really folks? Really?! Please tell me this is some sort of troll. Surely KY hasn't devolved (pun intended) that much in three years. I closely follow the evolution cretionism debate and somehow I had missed that the creationist had gone off the deep end. I'm still trying to follow the logic. How does teaching evolution (a scientific theory, a word which has a VERY different meaning in science than in lay terms) which has a huge amount of evidence supporting it, result in not allowing your to worship god? Have I not been worshiping God all these years? Note we aren't even talking about evolution from a single species which even scientists disagree on. In fact its quite likely several different species sprung up independently (no evidence for that other than statistics). We are just talking about evolution in a science classroom sense.

Reading these quotes left me entirely feeling like:
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The most depressing thing is those comments are from people with children. :sAng_banghead2:

Great pic of Jackie Chan. He's great.

I'm glad people are suspect of educational standards in that they often are pitifully low, colored with political bias and promote things that aren't as important to establish as the basics. This obviously isn't in the category of those things, which detracts from when those things really do happen in a curriculum and we need to demand better.

These sorts of hearings are always great for getting a few of the lunatic fringe of all sides to come out and get put on record. I see socialism in places some others don't, but I can't say I see genocide in these science standards.