It's been a great couple weeks in Tennessee -- unless you happen to be a public school student, gay, or not a fundamentalist Christian, or the time horizon in which you think about the future of humanity and the environment extends beyond the next decade or two. On March 26, the state legislature passed a bill that will have the intended effect of inserting creationism and climate science denial into public school classrooms. Just a week earlier, on March 19th, the House passed a bill to permit the display of the Ten Commandments in public buildings (HB2658). And Tennessee is currently debating a bill that is intended to give schoolyard bullies an exemption from the law if their bullying happens to be motivated by "sincerely held" religious bigotry.
MORE: http://richarddawkins.net/articles/645485-tennessee-goes-monkey-again
See also...
Are Evolution and Creationism Compatible?
http://www.skepticblog.org/2012/04/02/are-evolution-and-creationism-compatible/
Tenn. Rep. Tells The Truth: A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The 'Forum'
http://au.org/blogs/wall-of-separation/tenn-rep-tells-the-truth-a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-%E2%80%98forum%E2%80%99
