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Republicans in Idaho are pushing a bill to make the Bible a reference book in public school classes teaching science and law, Patheos reports.
Members of the state’s Republican party have published a set of proposed resolutions following a central committee meeting this past weekend among Idaho GOP higher-ups. The policy initiatives the state’s conservative leadership dreamed up include “A Resolution Supporting Bible Use in Idaho Public Schools.”
Republican party chairperson for Idaho County, Marge Arnzen, submitted legislative language to infuse the state’s curriculum with biblical teachings. The proposal, partially captured in screen shots below, begins with a nod to the Christian supreme being...
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RKP5637
(67,112 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)But Idaho is hardly alone as Texas, Tennessee and Oklahoma all have similar.
My personal favorite is Oklahoma where the plan is to have the scientific evidence supporting intelligent design and biblical creation put into classes. Which read literally I absolutely support, but I suspect they think that it's in the bible qualifies as evidence.
seveneyes
(4,631 posts)A total and complete cluster fuck is my vote.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)It mentions the corners of the earth on an oblate sphere.
And don't even get me started on the laws.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Bohr, Heisenberg and Sagan are hitting 10,000 rpm in their graves if you are wondering what that whirring sound is in the background.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)I hope someday that WILL be a law. Even your own child shouldn't have to go if they don't want too. Parents shouldn't be able to force them to go, and telling them they're going to Hell if they don't should be verbal abuse. I knew by the age of 9 that I didn't want to be in church, but every Sunday we would go. And my niece who never went to church as a child ended up being christian, I'm an Atheist.
olddots
(10,237 posts)Not just in Idaho this ignorance is everywhere .
villager
(26,001 posts)...and further, I'm guessing, busts up the country into smaller polities, about mid-century or so....
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)and the theocratic zones should be quarantined with an absolute embargo on ANY products of science. Let them live with the fruits if their own chosen idiocy.
valerief
(53,235 posts)speak down from the clouds and tell the faithful to "join Him in Heaven?" Then only sane people will be left in this country.
Oh, yeah, the chance of a kindly gazillionaire existing is as much as a god.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Say goodbye to any Idaho kid ever getting into a real college or university again.
