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Louisiana Citizens Horrified that there’s Evolution in Science Books

By Lauri Lebo

…design materials. Barbara Forrest, a philosophy professor at Southeastern Louisiana University, co-founder of Louisiana Citizens for Science and one of the creationist movement’s most damning critics, said she believes the complaints are merely a tactic to get disclaimers (Warning: These books teach evolution!) added to the textbooks, or pave the way for the inclusion of creationist supplemental materials. Other people who lodged complaints said…

High School Senior Leads Effort to Repeal Louisiana Anti-Evolution Law

By Lauri Lebo

…ers of the House voted against the original law. State Senator Karen Carter Peterson, D-New Orleans, has announced that she will sponsor the repeal legislation. Kopplin’s web site repealcreationism.com provides more information about the campaign. So far, Louisiana is the only state to take the bait, but similar anti-evolution bills have been submitted in Tennessee, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Missouri and Kentucky. So Kopplin’s latest efforts are impor…

Under Water: Waiting for the Flood (of Awareness) in Louisiana

By Drew Konow

…by the lack of national news coverage or public awareness of the floods in Louisiana. I am frustrated by the lack of coverage and awareness of how the floods in Louisiana do now and will continue to disproportionately affect poor people, immigrants, people of color, people affected by de facto segregation, homeless people, and queer people. I am frustrated by the short attention span, narrow discourse, and lack of critical social space that propel…

Pricey Tickets, Cranky Citizens, and Priests Behind Bars as Philadelphia Prepares For Papal Visit

By Anthea Butler

…to continue to shrink into the insularity and disorganization that caused the Philadelphia Archdiocese to decline so precipitously? It remains to be seen. Meanwhile, faithful Catholics and others who want to see the Pope may be losing heart. 10,000 tickets for the Pope’s Speech at Independence Mall sold out in two minutes on Tuesday, with 394k people trying their best to get a few. Tickets are already being scalped at $100 and up on craigslist. I…

Louisiana Panel Votes in Favor of Science Textbooks

By Lauri Lebo

…nk Hoffman both voted against recommendation. The Louisiana Family Forum, which calls itself a champion of “traditional values” and is affiliated with Focus on the Family, is behind the attack on the textbooks. Most of the complaints seem to have come from its membership. Louisiana Coalition for Science and philosophy professor Barbara Forrest wrote a post about it titled Hell Just Froze Over in Louisiana. But the fight isn’t over. Creationists co…

Nashville Cats Play Dumb As Backwards Preachers

By Daniel Schultz

Friends, I have read the Nashville Statement, and it is stupid. Like, really, really dumb. Final season of Friends dumb. Blotting out the sun dumb. So dumb that it forms less of a theological statement than a Facebook post masquerading as a creed of the church. It is so monumentally stupid that the largest button on the page is “Sign Now,” as if taking the time to read the thing first would surely dissuade you from supporting it. If you don’t kno…

The Right Wing Slant on Religious Freedom is a Slippery Slope

By Frederick Clarkson

…irginia legislation from 2012. In fact, parts of the Virginia bill and the Tennessee bills are identical while the Project Blitz model’s language is somewhat different but the same in intent. The Project Blitz playbook includes, however, links to the extant state legislation on which they based their model bill—including Virginia’s. So it’s possible that Tennessee got the Virginia language via Project Blitz. There may be similar stories elsewhere…

Biology Textbooks Approved in Louisiana Over Creationist Objections

By Lauri Lebo

…out mention. On Thursday, despite the organized anti-evolution campaign by Louisiana Family Forum, science triumphed in the state of Louisiana.The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education there voted 8-2 to approve recommended high school biology textbooks, over the objections of creationists who were horrified that teachers were going to teach their children science. In November, the state’s school board had held off adopting the biology I and…

King Witness’ Story Undermined By Reality

By Sarah Posner

…r rhetoric in their communities. They say Muhammad attended prayers at two Nashville mosques — the Al-Farooq Islamic Center and the Islamic Center of Nashville — for a short period of time. Then he disappeared. What’s more, although Bledsoe blamed his son’s conversion to Islam for his mental health problems, records show those issues pre-dated his conversion: On Feb. 24, 2004, according to police reports, Muhammad was arrested in Knoxville after p…

Did TV “News” Spark Anti-Islam Vandalism?

By Lauri Lebo

…report about a Tennessee Muslim community may have spurred vandalism on a Nashville mosque. Middle Tennessee’s WTVF Channel 5 this week ran a heavily hyped two-part series: “Inside Islamville: Is a Local Muslim Community Tied to Terrorism?” Go here and here to see the series. Islamville is the nickname for a private community (or “compound,” as reporter Nick Beres described in the report) that has existed near Dover, Tennessee since the early 198…