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Starman
SFN Regular
Sweden
1613 Posts |
 Posted - 03/24/2005 : 02:00:49
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More insanity in Floriduh.
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TALLAHASSEE — Republicans on the House Choice and Innovation Committee voted along party lines Tuesday to pass a bill that aims to stamp out “leftist totalitarianism” by “dictator professors” in the classrooms of Florida's universities.
This will of course be used by creationist, sponsor (Rep.) Dennis Baxley:quote:
“Some professors say, ‘Evolution is a fact. I don't want to hear about Intelligent Design (a creationist theory), and if you don't like it, there's the door,'” Baxley said, citing one example when he thought a student should sue.
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"Any religion that makes a form of torture into an icon that they worship seems to me a pretty sick sort of religion quite honestly"
-- Terry Jones |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
 Posted - 03/24/2005 : 02:56:03 [Permalink]
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The inevitable result of this type of thinking, that somehow religious fantasy is a valid science, will be the loss of US superiority in science and technology.
Most of the politicians who spout this blather are well aware of this. They are just pandering to the religious for votes.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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skiddum
New Member
USA
9 Posts |
Posted - 03/25/2005 : 05:34:21 [Permalink]
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Yeah I just read this the other day in our Alligator. It hasn't passed yet, and a lot of people really hope that it won't. Please help us by writing the congressmen and women involved, even if you don't live in FL, pretend you do:
Did you read this, I mean did you read THIS???!?!?!:
Rep. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, quote--
“Freedom is a dangerous thing, and you might be exposed to things you don't want to hear,” he said. “Being a businessman, I found out you can be sued for anything. Besides, if students are being persecuted and ridiculed for their beliefs, I think they should be given standing to sue.”
Somebody please write this moron:
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/representative_detail.aspx?id=4200&sessionID=38
And/or all the florida senate:
http://www.flsenate.gov/Legislators/ |
Luciferi primo cum sidere frigida rura carpamus, dum mane novum, dum gramina canent
--Virgil, Georgics (III, 324-5)
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skiddum
New Member
USA
9 Posts |
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Wendy
SFN Regular
USA
614 Posts |
Posted - 03/25/2005 : 07:56:37 [Permalink]
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I'm coming to Florida next week for Spring Break, skiddum. I'll write a letter and mail it while I'm down there.  |
Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 03/31/2005 : 11:55:57 [Permalink]
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| Well I don't know how I overlooked this thread so I accidentally continued it here. |
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