[QUOTE=Telperien]
According to the OP, that parent supported legislation to make his stance the official stance of that school and others.
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From what I understood, he wasn’t getting religion into the school as much as making sure things like evolution and references to ‘millions of years ago’ eliminated from the school. I could not tell if he was successful in this or not, and will try to find out tonight.
I agree that kindergarten is too early to worry about such matters, but to get rid of dinosaurs and that is just ridiculous.
Don’t creationists agree that dinosaurs did once exist, but they were all killed in the flood or something? I think you need more than just dinosaurs to counter this guy’s argument or to antagonize him.
You could get yourkid one of these. I saw one on a car just this morning.
[QUOTE=Liberal]
Great. Just what we need. Yet another myth glorifying the North over the South.
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Your latest blow as a Defender of Southern Tradition would carry more weight, if it were not for the fact that your own link mentions 10 antievolution bills pending in state legislatures in 2005. Of those, six were in southern states, two in northern (and two in border states, if Missouri and Kansas can be counted in that category).
The point appears moot anyway, as no such law is in force anywhere in the country, to my knowledge. Although the IDers keep trying.
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp]
Great, just what we need. Yet another poster who glosses over my smileys and doesn’t read the rest of my posts to the thread before responding.
Sincerely, OneCentStamp probably farther South than you
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Is Houston really south? Or does Texas get its own designation, when talking about regions:
North
South
West
East
[QUOTE=D_Odds]
Is Houston really south? Or does Texas get its own designation, when talking about regions:
North
South
West
East
and Texas?
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Before I moved to Houston, I assumed it would be like the Texas stereotype - big cowboy hats, belt buckles, cars with steer horn hood ornaments, cacti and dust. Now I realize that that stereotype is based mostly on West Texas, and to a lesser extent on Dallas, and is hopelessly narrow to define such a huge state. Houston, especially swollen with Louisiana refugees (OK, by now they’re just transplants) has a much more Southern feel.
I have always thought that Texas should have had a special dispensation for this North/South thing. A nation of their own, joined up just seventeen years ago decides, “Maybe this wasn’t such a good idea. We quit. We can’t? Now wait a darn minute…”
[QUOTE=Duke of Rat]
Yeah, I got that. If he’s successful, then we have something to worry about. As it is, it’s not quite state sponsored religion just yet.
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True.
I have a tendency to be a bit touchy about this when it’s unwarranted, perhaps because at my local public school, they get away with school-sponsored religious stuff and so I sometimes get preemptively aggravated when it looks like it’s happening somewhere else.
As for the shirts, I’d love nearly any one of those, but I’d have to wear it away from various relatives, as their heads would explode at the sight, and I don’t remember how to get a stain like that out.
[QUOTE=TommyTutone]
As I sat, I heard another parent introduce himself to the teacher (there were probably a half dozen in the room when we were there) and closed with the statement ‘oh, you probably heard about me, I’m the parent that you all are going to hate’…
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New to the area, are you?
A certain county in the North Metro has had a multi front battle on this subject which has raged, depending on how you count, either about a decade or in two complicated chapers of about four years each. This last time, it went up to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals and back down, and also around and around. A settlement of the pending litigation was announced sometime in the winter of 2006, so it’s not exactly ancient history to folks who live there. I would not be at all surprised if Round Three were essayed sometime in the next two years, as the ID folks there want to bring their case in as positive a posture as pssible – and have demonstrated willingness to elect school boards willing to help them do it.
[QUOTE=Telperien]
As for the shirts, I’d love nearly any one of those, but I’d have to wear it away from various relatives, as their heads would explode at the sight, and I don’t remember how to get a stain like that out.
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I’m curious to the story behind why you knew that in the first place.
I wouldn’t mind one of those shirts either. I even already have the perfect pin to go with them–“Doing my part to piss off the religious right”. “God please save me from your followers” might not be too bad either.
[QUOTE=Jayn_Newell]
I’m curious to the story behind why you knew that in the first place.
I wouldn’t mind one of those shirts either. I even already have the perfect pin to go with them–“Doing my part to piss off the religious right”. “God please save me from your followers” might not be too bad either.
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I was raised by clumsy slobs. I wouldn’t put it past them to spill anything.
[QUOTE=John Mace]
Now I feel *really *old…
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Don’t fret, dear friend. For you are old enough to a rent a carpet shampooer or a car, something society has not deemed me old enough to do. I can drive, enlist in the military, get a tattoo, buy booze, and gamble, but God FORBID I get my hands on a carpet shampooer.
Although after you turn 25 and can rent the carpet shampooer to shampoo your rental car, life is pretty much downhill until retirement.
[QUOTE=DiosaBellissima]
Don’t fret, dear friend. For you are old enough to a rent a carpet shampooer or a car, something society has not deemed me old enough to do. I can drive, enlist in the military, get a tattoo, buy booze, and gamble, but God FORBID I get my hands on a carpet shampooer.
Although after you turn 25 and can rent the carpet shampooer to shampoo your rental car, life is pretty much downhill until retirement.
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Well, we can’t have you getting drunk and shampooing carpets! That’s just crazy talk.
Or is it getting a tattoo of a carpet shampooer? I never remember.
I saw one on a car just this morning.
