Every Republican In This Statewide Race Wants Creationism Taught In Public Schools

[RandySF]

Science advocates in Texas won a battle last month after the State Board of Education voted to approve new science textbooks that teach evolution. However, they don't seem to have won the war.

During a debate Thursday, three of the four Republican candidates in the state’s lieutenant governor race said that they think creationism should be taught in public schools, according to The Texas Tribune. While the fourth candidate, Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, did not specifically state his beliefs on the subject, he later told The Dallas Morning News that he thinks creationism should be taught in schools, just not in science class.

According to the Morning News, none of the candidates referenced the education board’s textbook vote. However, candidates Todd Staples, who is currently serving as the state agriculture commissioner, Senator Dan Patrick and Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst all stressed the importance of religion in the classroom.

"Our students ... must really be confused. They go to Sunday School on Sunday and then they go into school on Monday and we tell them they can't talk about God," said Patrick, per the Tribune. "I'm sick and tired of a minority in our country who want us to turn our back on God."


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/13/texas-lieutenant-governor-creationism_n_4441180.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

[El_Johns]

1. These people are crazy or disingenuous. Kids can talk to God all they want, anywhere they want.

They just can't force everyone else to join in or watch while they do it.

[Phlem]

2. Of course they do.

filling the populace with conflicting ideals or lies keeps the masses at bay.

-p

[Oldfolkie]

3. That's backwards.

The guy who said kids go to church on Sunday and then to school on Monday to be told they can't talk about God has it backwards. The kids go to school all week to learn something and then on Sunday are told by some preacher with an education from a crossroads Bible College that the teachers and schools are wrong.

[defacto7]

4. "Stupid" is a disease.

We have to cure "stupid" in this country. Our education system is the laughing stock of developed countries because of these debates over myth as science taught in schools. "Stupid" is curable, the problem is that it's the most effective control mechanism on the planet.

Stop the stupid and we will survive and thrive.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. So not only is being stupid a prerequisite for Repub Lt Gov, they want to force it on kids too

While none of the lieutenant governor candidates mentioned the board’s decision, three — Patrick, Patterson and Staples — blasted teaching only evolution as a form of “political correctness.” They linked it to what they described as a broader moral decline.

“The breakup of the family in this country has started when we took God out of the classroom,” said Patrick, a radio talk show host.

“As a Christian, certainly creationism should be taught,” said Staples, a former state legislator.
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Patterson said the country has gone too far in deleting religious instruction from government institutions such as schools. A 1987 U.S. Supreme Court ruling banned teaching of creationism in science classes.

“We need to go back to those things that made this country great,” he said.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/state-politics/20131212-gop-lieutenant-governor-hopefuls-back-creationism.ece

It's scientific correctness, you dolts. And what about Islamic creationism, Hindu creation myths, and so on? Keen on those taking up school time too, huh? I thought not. Does Patrick want Allah in the classroom? Patterson seems to think what made the USA great was blatantly ignoring the First Amendment, and lying to children, and teaching them to be as dumb as a Republican Texan Lieutenant Governor. The kind of person who's less qualified than George W. Bush or Rick Perry.

[nyquil_man]

6. I'm puzzled by the concept of turning your back on something

that is omnipresent.

Most of the talk about "taking God out" of this place or that place sounds more like insecurity on the part of believers who want social reinforcement for an uncertain belief.

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