Anybody up for a game of Whack-A-Mole?
I’d ask how anyone can be so stupid and still be breathing, but I know there’s ample people out there who are just as dumb.
I thought this would be about requiring some sort of card in the wake of security and/or scandals. Would make more sense than altering the science curriculum at least.
yessiree! That’s my state!
(Not surprising. Look at the past year of News of the Weird…More stories originate in FL than anywhere else)
When will global warming flood Florida off the map?
Probably never, because I’d be willing to bet that those idiots don’t believe in that, either. 
Exactly. The great Flood has already occured–need proof? Look at a rainbow!
Next time it’s through fire.
This is why states’ right are an important concept.
Why do you in TN, give two shits about what Polk County, FL teaches in the classroom? Do you have kids that go to school there? Do family members live there?
If not, the piss off and let those people make their own bed to lie in.
Ten years from now when no Polk County school children are world renoun Biology experts, leave it to the members of the school board to defend their judgements…
This is how, in this country, we experiment with ideas and let the bad ones be proven wrong. You want to stop ID teachings everywhere? Then let Christians claim forever that the reason why all bad things happen is because you stopped ID from being taught.
The states are laboratories for thought…
Maybe it’s time to establish something like a federal Department of Education.
Maybe it’s 12 years ago that we should have eliminated it…
Luckily for us, there’s that pesky Constitution thingy.
Off the top of my head: Education standards, a well educated work force…
Yeah screw the kids who don’t know any better.
Or they could learn by example
In fairness, Polk County, FL is the Lightning Capital of the World. These people are naturally curious about whether God influences his creation; and if so, why He’s aiming at them.
(A helpful Florida traveller’s tip: when visiting Polk County, never leave the interstate for any reason. Step out of your car for an instant, and the next thing you know you’ve been struck by lightning multiple times, your smoldering carcass stripped of valuables by the locals, efficiently molested, and quickly buried in a nearby phosphate pit. This happens literally thousands of times a day.)
Yes, the one with the tenth amendment.
I’m sure you can’t sleep nights worrying about the education standards of the work force in Polk County, FL. If you do, you need to get a life…
Since parents and local boards are to fucked up, then we need national standards and camps teaching children how to be good athiests and liberals.
When an ant makes its way onto my picnic blanket, I flick it off. If I leave it alone, my picnic will eventually be overrun by ants.
Where did you get all of that straw?
LilShieste
I’m not sure the tenth amendment really applies here, as I think states rights is a bit of a Red Herring in this discussion. The 10th states “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” The question of teaching ID is : Does it violate the first amendment by implicitly establishing a state sponsored religious viewpoint? If so, then it is obviously prohibited to the states.
The states may be laboratories for thought, but that doesn’t mean we can have fifty different interpretations of the first amendment, or fifty different interpretations of the constitution.
It is the county next to me. Am I allowed to be upset? I mean, I work with several people who have crossed that impenetrable barrier of the Polk County Line to work. Thankfully, I am not in a field that requires much brain-cell rubbing, so perhaps they are safe.
But seriously, wtf? It has been pretty darn well proven that ID exists just as a way to get creationism (the biblical one) into schools. Do people really believe it? I mean, come on, it has actually fooled someone into thinking it has any validity whatsoever?
PT Barnum was right.
Your constitutional logic is spinning in circles. The authors of the first amendment never intended it to apply to the states.
Next step down: a state sponsored religious viewpoint does not amount to an establishment of religion, nor prohibits the free exercise thereof. As in, even if the U.S. or any State said that “Christianity is the PREFERRED religion, and in our humble opinion, all others can fuck off, but will face no prosecution” it STILL does not violate the first.
If you think it does, provide me with constitutional evidence, not Warren court bullshit…
Anything from the Warren court isn’t constitutional evidence? Seems to me it would be a waste of time to bring any evidence forward, if you are going to only accept evidence that supports your argument.
The Warren Court made so many rulings that relied on their own personal opinions not rooted in precedent or law, that only Brown v Board leaves them with any validity because it ended segregation.
Since 50 years later, we are glad that the races attend the same schools doesn’t mean that the Warren Court relied on any correct precedent or did anything but succumb to Earl Warren’s large ego.
Then they rewrote the whole constitution.
Whether you agree with what happened or not, surely, and surely you must agree that it was an activist court against what the framers envisioned…
I have found that, when people refer to an “activist court”, they mean a court that did not interpret the constitution to their liking. It has no meaning other than “they didn’t do what I wanted them to do.”
I was under the impression that the Establishment Clause also prevented the country/states from establishing a state preferred religion. Is that not the case?
In any case, if the U.S. or any state did establish a preferred religion, that most certainly does infringe on my freedom of religion. It’s a simple case of intimidation. It’s like finding yourself in the middle of a “Captain Kirk” convention, with a nametag that says “Picard rules!” Who knows what could happen to you if you decide to actually wear your nametag.
LilShieste