Fundies are funny people

[ebonlock]

Just when you think the fundie whackjobs can't get any nuttier, they go and prove you wrong:

The second most powerful member of the Texas House has circulated a Georgia lawmaker's call for a broad assault on teaching of evolution.

House Appropriations Committee Chairman Warren Chisum, R-Pampa, used House operations Tuesday to deliver a memo from Georgia state Rep. Ben Bridges.

The memo assails what it calls "the evolution monopoly in the schools."

Mr. Bridges' memo claims that teaching evolution amounts to indoctrinating students in an ancient Jewish sect's beliefs.

"Indisputable evidence – long hidden but now available to everyone – demonstrates conclusively that so-called 'secular evolution science' is the Big Bang, 15-billion-year, alternate 'creation scenario' of the Pharisee Religion," writes Mr. Bridges, a Republican from Cleveland, Ga. He has argued against teaching of evolution in Georgia schools for several years.

He then refers to a Web site, www.fixedearth.com, that contains a model bill for state Legislatures to pass to attack instruction on evolution as an unconstitutional establishment of religion.

Mr. Bridges also supplies a link to a document that describes scientists Carl Sagan and Albert Einstein as "Kabbalists" and laments "Hollywood's unrelenting role in flooding the movie theaters with explicit or implicit endorsement of evolutionism."

Could we just maybe make a rule that nobody who's basically one shopping cart and tin foil hat away from being one of those crazy people you avoid on the street is ever allowed to actually hold a position in any government office. Like, you know, ever. I can't help thinking we could all benefit from this rule if only we could convince the GOP, however as it would undercut a great many of their contenders for office and a lot of their base, I rather doubt it'll ever happen.

Comments

[geekygabe.livejournal.com]

Holy crap. As someone about to start a PhD in micropaleontology/astrobiology, I must scream profanity and, with trembling jaw and bulging veins, say, "KHAN!"

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Can I just say that that sounds like the coolest double major I have ever heard of in my life? Also, if you don't read it already, I really recommend Pharyngula (http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/), as it will help keep your head from exploding.

[geekygabe.livejournal.com]

I will check out the blog -- thanks! And after I read your post, I immediately looked up who my state rep was and e-mailed him. I didn't study geology for nothing! (Although I went to a Baptist college in Abilene, and one of the other geology majors was enrolled in that degree program "just to see what the Enemy thinks." Shudder.)

[eska-rina.livejournal.com]

...god, what is wrong with them?! I... seriously, do they really believe in the crap they say?! -_-

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Yes they do believe it because God told them so through the fillings in their teeth. Though that may have been the aliens. They're not quite sure. However, whoever they were is very certain that this is really all a Jewish plot to destroy Christianity by insisting that Jesus did not, in fact, ride around on a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

[geekygabe.livejournal.com]

So I wrote my state representative and got this response:

From: DISTRICT14.BROWN@house.state.tx.us
Subject: RE: Evolution in public schools
Date: 30 April 2007 5:04:08 PM CDT
To: gwaggoner@gmail.com

Rep. Chisum has offered profuse apologies for distributing the memo. He has admitted that he did not look at it carefully and did not check out the website. He truly regrets acting in haste based on performing a courtesy for a fellow member of the National Conference of State Legislators (NCSL). Seeing the hurt that this has caused has been a grief to all of us, especially those of us who have worked for him for a long time and know that the memo does not in any way reflect his beliefs.
Sincerely,
Annette Glass, Legislative Aide
Rep. Warren Chisum

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

So the guy's not anti-Jew, just anti-women:
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/column?oid=oid%3A467070

In the world of family-planning and reproductive rights, it's been business as usual at the 80th Legislature: The agenda is schizophrenic and often steeped in hypocrisy...Consider the perennial quest to define "life" as the magical moment at which sperm meets egg. This year, that definition has found its way into House Bill 175, the so-called "trigger bill" filed by Rep. Warren Chisum, R-Pampa, which would ban all abortion in Texas (unless the mother would otherwise die), if the U.S. Supreme Court ever decides to reverse Roe v. Wade.

The point of the bill, says Kathi Seay, spokeswoman for Rep. Frank "the Fetus" Corte, is to demonstrate that Texans are committed to upholding the sanctity of life. (Chisum agreed to carry the bill, but Corte's office is fielding all questions about it.) While Chisum, Corte, and similar-minded lawmakers champion the rights owed the unborn, they nonetheless fail to support the kinds of programs and policies – like the Children's Health Insurance Program – that might better demonstrate real concern for the living.

But I'm totally sure this guy just didn't read the memo from an esteemed colleague and made a bit of a boo-boo, that's all. He couldn't possibly be a fundie nutbag with an agenda, nope, no way.

[geekygabe.livejournal.com]

No, see, all he has to do is have his staff write some lame-ass, off-the-cuff apology and everything is all better. God, it makes me sick.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

If he doesn't make Keith Olbermann's Worst Person in the World list tonight I may well cry myself to sleep.

[eilonwey.livejournal.com]

*ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha*

Well, I guess it gives me another reason to be proud of my religion. ;) And terrified of my government.

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Well I'm sorry but the Jews are just going to have to wait their turn, we neo-pagans get to uproot good Christian values and undermine all of society first. It's our turn, dammit. Soon there will be evolutionary theory, girl on girl/boy on boy action, and abortions for all. Long live the revolution, baby!

[elenderel.livejournal.com]

Soon there will be evolutionary theory, girl on girl/boy on boy action, and abortions for all. Long live the revolution, baby!

Don't forget the clone farms :)

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Oh jeez, totally slipped my mind but you're right, Clone Farms!

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

And mandatory hot man-on-box-turtle action, and communism! Ah, glorious day!

[pikabot]

Whoops, wrong image.