Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alice.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!mhuxt!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!alice!jj From: jj@alice.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion Subject: Re: Evolution banned in the US Schools. Message-ID: <4141@alice.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 10:24:37 EDT Article-I.D.: alice.4141 Posted: Wed Aug 14 10:24:37 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 07:30:42 EDT Organization: New Jersey State Farm for the Terminally Bewildered Lines: 52 Xref: linus net.politics:9849 net.religion:7007 {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,..." (ihnp4/allegra)!alice!jj