# Is it OKAY to congratulate a political body here? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 19, 2012, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-okay-to-congratulate-a-political-body-here/644558 "2012-12-19T19:11:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-okay-to-congratulate-a-political-body-here/644558/1 "2012-12-19T19:11:16Z")
The Orleans Parish School Board in Louisiana Just Voted to Ban Creationism (and distorted history) from Their Schools Nice job folks. I’d call this an anti-pitting or unpitting. [More Voices | Patheos](http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/12/18/the-orleans-parish-school-board-in-louisiana-just-voted-to-ban-creationism-from-their-schools/) > [@](#): > > No history textbook shall be approved which has been adjusted in accordance with the State of Texas revisionist guidelines nor shall any science textbook be approved which presents creationism or intelligent design as science or scientific theories. So they avoid teaching religion as science and also avoid teaching history as “revised” by the idiots in Texas. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-okay-to-congratulate-a-political-body-here/644558/2 "2012-12-19T19:20:27Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > I’d call this an anti-pitting or unpitting. [Moderating] I’d call it an MPSIMS thread. [/Moderating] ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-okay-to-congratulate-a-political-body-here/644558/3 "2012-12-19T19:31:31Z")
_Hallelujah!_ ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-okay-to-congratulate-a-political-body-here/644558/4 "2012-12-19T20:02:07Z")
Three (a trinity of) Cheers to them! ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-okay-to-congratulate-a-political-body-here/644558/5 "2012-12-19T20:09:01Z")
Damn, that’s fantastic. A victory for knowledge and science. ---
**Author:** ![BigAppleBucky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigapplebucky/32/178_2.png) [@BigAppleBucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigAppleBucky)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-okay-to-congratulate-a-political-body-here/644558/6 "2012-12-19T20:27:12Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > [Moderating] > > I’d call it an MPSIMS thread. > > [/Moderating] Hardly seems pointless to me. Deep in the South going against the anti-science crowd probably takes a good deal of political courage. My knowledge of Texas historical revisionism is very vague, but I seem to recall they were characterizing slavery as good for the slaves and were very pro manifest destiny so that shoving natives aside was deemed a good thing. ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-okay-to-congratulate-a-political-body-here/644558/7 "2012-12-19T20:43:26Z")
Is it OK if we pit the fact that it’s actually necessary for there to be a vote against creationism in a science curriculum? ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Kirk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@Capt\_Kirk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capt_Kirk)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-okay-to-congratulate-a-political-body-here/644558/8 "2012-12-19T20:46:16Z")
> [@BigAppleBucky](#): > > Hardly seems pointless to me. Deep in the South going against the anti-science crowd probably takes a good deal of political courage. > > My knowledge of Texas historical revisionism is very vague, but I seem to recall they were characterizing slavery as good for the slaves and were very pro manifest destiny so that shoving natives aside was deemed a good thing. Don’t forget we Texans know that this country was founded as a Christian Nation and made sure it was put in the History books as such. Just don’t bother to read what the Founding Fathers wrote on the subject and what the Constitution says. We are Texas, we a right so there 😛 **Capt** Houston, TX ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2012, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-okay-to-congratulate-a-political-body-here/644558/9 "2012-12-21T20:27:24Z")
It’s good to remember that the world is full of sane people even if you don’t hear as much about them as you do about the more newsworthy among us. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-okay-to-congratulate-a-political-body-here/644558/10 "2012-12-23T06:42:02Z")
> [@74westy](#): > > It’s good to remember that the world is full of sane people even if you don’t hear as much about them as you do about the more newsworthy among us. “Among us”? Are you “newsworthy”? ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-okay-to-congratulate-a-political-body-here/644558/11 "2012-12-23T17:17:30Z")
> [@For You](#): > > “Among us”? Are you “newsworthy”? Not with regard to teaching religion in science class, I’d like to think, but some of my other views might warrant a headline once in a while.