Those who guard our morals from hidden dangers

[Setzer]

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7&section ... =11&y=2003

One of the funniest things I've ever read

[LadyTevar]

One of the funniest things I've ever read

Damn... and I thought the US lead the world in Politically Correct BS...

[Montcalm]

So does it mean when we see an X-rated movie,it actualy is a christian movie.

[Dark Hellion]

You know what they say Montcalm, you get enough Catholic schoolgirls in a room and the clothes just can't stay on.

[Frank Hipper]

I'm amazed the guy hasn't been "disapeared" or mutilated in some way, questioning the Ministry's decision like that.
That article's a breath of fresh air, really

[The Albino Raven]

wow, makes me want to go hug jerry falwell for promoting liberal values

[Darth Wong]

Ummm, how is a neurotic Muslim fear of cross symbols any worse than a neurotic Christian fear of evolutionary science? In both cases, they want to take something out of a textbook even though it makes sense and is useful, with no justification other than the fact that it offends their religious beliefs.

[Nathan F]

Ummm, how is a neurotic Muslim fear of cross symbols any worse than a neurotic Christian fear of evolutionary science? In both cases, they want to take something out of a textbook even though it makes sense and is useful, with no justification other than the fact that it offends their religious beliefs.

That 'neurotic Christian fear' isn't held by many any longer, and it isn't made into laws. If you'll remember, it was back in, oh, 1920 something that the courts decided that evolution should be taught. Courts that were, most likely, sat on by Christians. Plus, this is happening RIGHT NOW by an entire GOVERNMENT, not just a few small groupds of fundies. This would be like the Christian fundamentalists trying to get the sign for the quarter-moon changed because it's a crescent, or crescent rolls being called half-circle rolls.

[Darth Wong]

That 'neurotic Christian fear' isn't held by many any longer, and it isn't made into laws. If you'll remember, it was back in, oh, 1920 something that the courts decided that evolution should be taught. Courts that were, most likely, sat on by Christians. Plus, this is happening RIGHT NOW by an entire GOVERNMENT, not just a few small groupds of fundies. This would be like the Christian fundamentalists trying to get the sign for the quarter-moon changed because it's a crescent, or crescent rolls being called half-circle rolls.

Earth to Nathan: return from cloud 9, please.

The battle was hardly won in 1920. America is still full of laws which prohibit or restrict the teaching of evolution theory. Something like a dozen states have rules in place which limit the teaching of evolution or force teachers to add disclaimers. Numerous textbooks have been forcibly rewritten at the behest of legislators. And let's not even get on the subject of sex ed, which has been completely neutered in most school districts because of religious bullshit.

[RedImperator]

The Scopes trial did not legalize the teaching of evolution. Scopes lost, if you recall. The trial was important because it was essentially a very public debate on creation vs. evolution, and Clarence Darrow (evolution) utterly trounced William Jennings Bryan (creation), even though Bryan won the legal case (Scopes recieved some slap on the wrist fine). Bryan was so devestated by the experience he died shortly thereafter.

Laws banning the teaching of evolution weren't abolished in the United States until SCOTUS decided Epperson v. Arkansas in 1968. It didn't ban teaching "Creation science" outright until Edwards v. Aguillard, in 1987.