When my son was in High School the Sociology teacher slipped in, as a guest speaker,

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35. We had a "fossil guy" haunting our children's public school.

He claimed to be some kind of geologist, had a good collection of fossils, was an entertaining speaker, but he was also a young earth Creationist who attributed most geologic features to the Biblical flood. He never overtly mentioned that when he was speaking to larger groups, but would try to rope children and adults in later, in smaller groups or individually.

My son, who'd placed in the California Science Fair, called him out to me.

I got on the guy's case with the local school board and principals. On the day that was supposed to be our showdown he simply didn't show.

I'd hear he was occasionally invited to private Christian schools and summer camps, but that was the last we saw of him in our public schools.

I think a lot of teachers loved him. He was almost like a day off work, and some of them were Evangelical Christians themselves.

This same sort of shit went on when I was in high school.

I remember a high school assembly lead by energetic twenty-something Christian Evangelical youth ministers that was essentially, but not overtly, an "abstinence only" cheer leading program that was entirely inappropriate for a public school.

This was after a girl in our class bled to death from a miscarriage because she was afraid her good Christian parents would find out she was having sex. Only a few people in our class knew that and they weren't talking. I heard it from my mom.

I hate these people. They worship a cruel and capricious god.

Good for your son.