Perry: Add intelligent design to teaching

[txindy]

Governor GoodHair may have just torpedoed his reelection campaign right here. The stance of the "little-known Democratic hopeful" is slightly worrying, though - until you read further and see that they are not talking about the leading Democratic candidate. Talk about misleading. Typical.

Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican who has made outreach to Christian conservatives a theme of his gubernatorial portfolio, thinks Texas public school students should be taught intelligent design along with evolutionary theory, his office said Thursday.

Three Democratic challengers for governor this year and independent hopeful Kinky Friedman disagreed. Independent candidate Carole Keeton Strayhorn had no immediate comment, and a little-known Democratic hopeful sided with Perry.

The governor's stance emerged in the wake of a federal judge's decision last month that it was unconstitutional for a Pennsylvania school board to require that intelligent design be taught as an alternative to evolution in public school science classes. District Judge John Jones III called intelligent design an idea that cannot be divorced from its religious origins.

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/01/6perry.html

[mzteris]

1. link to

"little-known Democratic hopeful"

http://rashadforgovernor.com/

Tell him he's registered with the wrong party.

[justabob]

2. please, please no

Perry is such an ass. I hope this does torpedo his chances of re-election. If he wants to do something about education he should be working on the school finance issue! Grrrr. I can't stand our governor.

[Flubadubya]

3. By the way...

That independent candidate is actually Carole Keeton Rylander McClellan Strayhorn... they forgot to add the other erstwhile hubby names. They also failed to mention the fact that she is none other than the mother of young Scotty "Snotty" McClellan of White House infamy!

Bwahaha... she's running as an independent? Independent my ass, the woman is eaten up with right-wingitis!! :rofl:

[Bridget Burke]

4. You mean Carol Keeton Rylander McClellan Strayhorn Cougar Mellencamp?

She's the one who refused tax exemption to a Unitarian Universalist Church!

[Bridget Burke]

5. Seems highly unlikely

Tincy Miller of Dallas, chairwoman of the State Board of Education, called intelligent design a nonissue in this year's elections. Board members voted in November 2003 against endorsing only biology textbooks that presented the most qualified characterizations of evolution, with words such as "may" or "could." Publishers at the time refused to make major changes to the evolution sections of the books.

"We had a huge discussion; it was just put to bed," Miller said. "We teach evolution in Texas." The board is slated to consider revised biology textbooks in 2008 at the earliest.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris Bell, a former U.S. House member from Houston, said: "Things we teach kids in science class should have a scientific basis. Based on everything I have seen and heard, I fail to recognize the scientific basis for intelligent design." .......

(Kinky) Friedman, of Kerrville, said of teaching intelligent design in science: "I'm agin it; there's nothing intelligent about it."

Bell will probably be the Democratic candidate. Rashad Jafer is an interesting guy--he was born in Pakistan & got a degree in microbiology. I don't agree with many of his views, but the fact that he is in the running probobably gives some Texans conniptions.

[txindy]

6. This is just posturing by Gov. HairProducts. He's appealing to his base.

Or he's just base, himself, imo. :evilgrin:

I can't wait for GrandmaManyNames to take a position on this, though. This issue may push interesting buttons throughout Texas. People who would've voted for the repub candidate automatically may switch to Scotty's mommy. They will divide the state between them. Bell has a serious shot.

[justabob]

8. "GrandmaManyNames"

That is a great way to refer to her! :D

[txindy]

10. I'd prefer not to refer to her, at all

But the idea that she and PerfectCoif are going to go for each other's throats until Election Day certainly does appeal. Campaign commercials will be downright entertaining this year. Who knew?! :rofl:

May they divide the repub votes and both lose decisively. :toast:

[mattclearing]

7. The little-known comment doesn't seem misleading to me.

It's saying everyone else in the race disagreed except a fringe Dem. What's misleading about that?

[txindy]

9. You phrased it far better than the article did.

I'm just heartily sick of the slant the Statesman gives articles about GoodHair. They are determined to find Democrats who agree with him to 'balance' their reporting. :eyes: If they are going to trumpet that fact, then they need to address it sooner in the article and not at the end. This was a front page headline, above the fold. You don't learn about who the fringe candidate is until the end of the story - which is on page 15. Many readers won't make it that far. To be fair to the paper, though, the page 15 column headline reads "Most Challengers Disagree With Perry."

I'm just fed up with the bias over these many years. And, yes, I'm picky. ;)