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Re: NOSHA: Letter in Times-Picayune
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crgo-@bellsouth.net
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Sep 25, 2007 09:45 PDT
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Thanks Brett. And welcome aboard.
-------------- Original message from Brett Guillory <kurzwei-@gmail.com>: --------------
| | I found it :) I'm new here, btw, hi all.
Brett Guillory
Re: "Vitter earmarks funds for religious group: Nonprofit supports
creationist education," Page 1, Sept. 23.
I was dismayed but not surprised to see that Sen. David Vitter had
funneled $100,000 to his close friends at the Louisiana Family Forum,
an openly anti-science, pro-creationism activist organization.
Sen. Vitter obviously cares more about taking care of his political
supporters than he does about making sure our children are taught
sound science in the classroom.
Sen. Vitter blatantly ignores actual science and the Constitution in
the same blasé manner he ignored his marriage vows.
Saying that he supports teaching all points of view in biology is a false claim.
Creationism is not a biological theory about the changes to life over
time. Rather, it is clearly a religious belief that has no scientific
evidence to support its supernatural claims.
I am very disappointed that Sen. Vitter would use our tax dollars to
exploit our children for his own political gain.
Thanks to our secular Constitution, religious teaching belongs in the
church of one's choice and science belongs in the classroom.
If Sen. Vitter truly wants to improve our children's education, he
would be wise to support teaching the scientific method and to
terminate his political pandering, which devalues the quality of
learning in Louisiana schools.
Robert Carver
Jefferson
On 9/25/07, Connie Gordon wrote:
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NOSHA's Robert Carver has a letter to the editor in todays Times-Picayune.
It is an excellent letter excoriating David Vitter for playing "footsies"
with the Louisiana Family Forum and promoting the teaching of creationism in
our schools.
But I'll be damned if I can find it on the NOLA.com website to copy it here.
If anyone else can, please do so, so that we can all share in reading an
excellent letter.
Thanks, Robert.
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Brett G.
6th Kyu LAGWNF student
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Yahoo: kurzweil_freak
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