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RE: Letter in Times-Picayune
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Robert Carver
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Sep 25, 2007 13:43 PDT
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Thanks for the praise and I admit to being a bit surprised that the T-P actually printed it so quickly. Here is the link I found on nola.com:
http://www.nola.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-10/1190728203173720.xml&coll=1
Politics trumps education in Vitter's earmark
Tuesday, September 25,
2007
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
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. - Richard Dawkins
To: nos-@topica.com
From: crgo-@bellsouth.net
Subject: NOSHA: Letter in Times-Picayune
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:23:08 +0000
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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