Well, religious right-wingnut Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana is definitely beefing-up the religious right-wingnut credentials to his resume. As are the majority of the Louisiana state legislators. Yesterday, the legislators handed him a bill, SB 733 (there were very few nay votes against this bill), aka The Louisiana Science Education Act (LSEA), and he promptly signed SB 733 into law.
LSEA is being touted as providing the "critical thinking" so desperately required by students in Louisiana’s public school science classes for their success in life. However, this bill was basically written by none other that Seattle’s Discover Institute, the home base of Intelligent Design. And as most of us are aware, courts in Dover, Pennsylvania, and Cobb County, Georgia, have in cases decided against the Discovery Institute, ruling that Intelligent Design is basically akin to teaching biblical creationism.
So Governor Bobby Jindal, a biology major of all things during his time at Brown University, just couldn’t let the opportunity pass by to begin turning the state of Louisiana into a religious theocracy.
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