Here we go again.
Yesterdays New York Times reports that Texas is well on their way to becoming the newest laughing stock of the scientific education community as they've just fired Christine Comer, the states top expert in science education.
The reason?
Forwarding an e-mail message about a talk by a distinguished professor who debunks "intelligent design" and creationism as legitimate alternatives to evolution in the science curriculum.
So yeah, they tried this before in Dover, PA. Hell, I even "blogged" about this back in the day with a little less self control than I have now, but I can see now that I was on the right track.
By the way, the Dover, PA court case found that intelligent design was "supernatural and theological and not part of a scientific education".
Writes Ralph Blumenthal:
But now Ms. Comer, 56, of Austin, is out of a job, after forwarding an e-mail message on a talk about evolution and creationism — "a subject on which the agency must remain neutral," according to a dismissal letter last month that accused her of various instances of "misconduct and insubordination" and of siding against creationism and the doctrine that life is the product of "intelligent design."
The talk mentioned in the email forward was by Barbara Forrest, a professor of philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University.
Professor Forrest testified as an expert witness in a 2005 Dover, Pa., case that found intelligent design supernatural and theological and definitely not part of a scientific education.
And guess whose name gets also gets brought up in all this mess?
George W. Bush.
Ms. Comer said that barely an hour after forwarding the e-mail message about Dr. Forrest’s talk, she was called in and informed that Lizzette Reynolds, deputy commissioner for statewide policy and programs, had seen a copy and complained, calling it "an offense that calls for termination." Ms. Comer said she had no idea how Ms. Reynolds, a former federal education official who served as an adviser to George W. Bush when he was governor of Texas, had seen the message so quickly, and remembered thinking, "What is this, the thought police or what?"
We're trying so hard to fight a WAR against whomever, Iraq, Al Qeada, islamofacism, extremism, whatever, yet the people we may have to protect ourselves MOST from is some mouthbreathing hilljacks who are constantly striving to make your children dumber.
Talk about a threat to national security.....