School board whack-a-mole

[dvandom]

It's starting to look like some sort of pathological whack-a-mole pattern is developing in school board elections, in Kansas and elsewhere. Here's the cycle:

1) Right-leaning school board rewrites science standards to crack the door open for creationism.

2) Voters wake up, vote the bums out.

3) New school board reverses the decision.

4) Voters go back to sleep.

5) Right-leaning candidates get elected to school board on Family Values issues, but claim they're not out to gut the science standards.

6) GOTO 1

Comments

[z4nd4r.livejournal.com]

Isn't there some clause that those religious fundies are supposed to follow...something about not lying?

[not-croaker.livejournal.com]

Didn't the Pope just speak up and say, "Evolution is for-real, 'Intelligent Design' doesn't belong in schools, so shut up"?

[foomf.livejournal.com]

The Pope has nothing to do with the majority of Christianity, and hasn't since Martin Luther nailed the 96 f^hTheses to the door of Wittenburg Cathedral.

So, no Protestant fundamentalist will care what he says. They generally think he's part of the Anti-Christ if anything.

[z4nd4r.livejournal.com]

exactly.
Isn't it sad when the Catholic Church is the voice of Reason?

NO ONE EXPECTS A SPANISH INQUISITION!