In the year 2025, if man is still alive, we will see the 100-year anniversary of what is still known as the
Scopes Monkey Trial. From the looks of things, America's most aggressively stupid people
will still be going strong even then:
The Louisiana House Education Committee killed a measure to repeal a 1981 creationism law on Wednesday, even though the Supreme Court had ruled it was unconstitutional.
An amendment to Senate Bill 205, an education bill to expand foreign language immersion programs, would have repealed the Balanced Treatment for Creation-Science and Evolution-Science Act. But the committee voted to remove the amendment.
Apparently the thinking is that a future Supreme Court might someday be stacked with enough anti-basic-science nutcases to reverse the decision and let Louisiana mandate schools teach "God Did That"-ism again so, hey, might as well keep the unconstitutional law in our back pocket just in case. The even sadder thing is that they're not necessarily wrong. Give Scalia another 10 years or so and he'll be writing decisions demanding we bring back witch burnings.