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From: jj@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion
Subject: Re:  Evolution banned in the US Schools.
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Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 10:24:37 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 14 10:24:37 1985
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{Now maybe you'll read this.  You must have not read the first
one, from the loud silence I hear.}

I find it quite disturbing that netters, while finding time
to worry about who is/was a Nazi-influenced composer/artist/conductor
(I thought conductors were artists, too, by the way), what
the politics of Don Black are (I think we can all see for
ourselves, on that one, folks), and what to do about the 
nuclear bombs that we're stuck with (since the USSR
isn't about to do anything except blackmail us if we get
rid of them), do not even seem to care that evolution,
physics, sexual equality, racial equality, the scientific
method, geology, geography, and other such "secular
humanism studies" have been banned in high-schools that
receive federal funding.

Of course, that's not strictly true, since the statute
only bars "secular humanism", which is ill-defined and
probably meaningless. None-the-less,
that's what "fundamental Christians" and other nasty beasties
are using the statute for.  Given that the person who
WROTE the statute (Orin Hatch, R-Utah) is a person with strong 
and very regressive religious beliefs, I cannot believe that the 
use of the statute for religious harrassment is co-incidence.

It is more than sad that the US is about to have a new round
of Scopes trials, religious persecutions, and the like,
it is downright TERRIFYING!

Why don't all you activists out there who have the time
and willingness to do something wake up and DO something?
(Well, I do know the answer, since most of the
"activists" on this net seem to be luddites themselves,
albiet of a different nature.  Maybe because it's anti-science
it's OK?  Come on, now.  Do you really think you fit
into Orin Hatch's New World?  Really?)

Lots of people have spent time crying about things that
the "Ray-Gun" administration has done, merely because
they figured they could make some political points,
even though they knew that the points were dishonest
and bankrupt.  Now something matters, and I don't hear a peep, a rumble, 
or even a pin drop on the subject.

Come on, folks, you're smarter than THAT!

Prove it!
-- 
SUPPORT SECULAR TEDDY-BEAR-ISM.
"I see a dark cloud, On the horizon,..."

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