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August 02, 2006
The Other Truth About Kansas
Most of Kansas voted for proscience State School Board candidates in the primary election held yesterday. While they were unable to boot all the creationists, this is a very good start and a major set back for those who poured lots of money into creationist's campaign treasuries. One of the better accounts can be found at Thoughts from Kansas. As Josh Rosenau says there,
The Board is back in moderate hands no matter what. The night is, on balance, a victory. It'd be nice to further marginalize the extremists by winning the remaining races in November, but we've got a majority that will implement the science standards recommended by the scientists, educators and parents of the science standards committee. The Board can focus on bigger issues. They can dig into ways to address the special challenges of rural districts, and to find solutions to the problems faced by the students in poorer urban districts. Real challenges, not fake controversy. Helping kids, not fighting culture wars.That's what tonight was about, and the kids won. This wasn't Dover rejecting a few municipal officials. It's a whole state turning against the divisiveness of the IDolators. Congratulations, Kansas! [emphasis added]
There are nuts in Kansas but Kansas is not nuts. At least it wasn't yesterday. There will be more hard battles ahead.
Posted by DuaneSmith at August 2, 2006 09:40 AM | Read more on Evolution |
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