FLAT EARTH REPUGS BEATEN BACK IN DOVER, PA-- BUT IGNORANCE AND SUPERSTITION ARE STILL ALL THE RAGE IS POOR KANSAS

Like with the attack on equal rights for gay-Americans (see the piece below), the attack on Science by the same forces of ignorance of darkness won one and lost one yesterday. The good people of Dover, PA looked closely at the options and decided they want to stay in the 21st Century... and left the 12th Century to the folks in Kansas.

Just a week after the close of testimony in the reprise of the Scopes monkey trial (Kitzmiller v Dover Area School Board), the voters in Dover got to express their opinion of this insanity. The 8 Republikook incumbents who were advocating teaching BUY BULL fairy tales and superstitions in public schools instead of Science were completely defeated and every single one of them was kicked out of office. Each one of the backward assholes was defeated by a Democrat. Voters were furious that the primitive religionist bigots were playing games with their children's educations and also furious that they had cost the taxpayers a large sum of money in legal fees to defend against this ideological onslaught from narrow-minded bigots like Rick Santorum. Although the nutcase with the fewest votes was Alan Bonsell, the driving force behind the creationist/"intelligent design" policy, not one Republican survived the vote. (Let's pray we can say that after the 2006 congressional elections.) The NY TIMES has an in depth look at the electoral disaster for the Far Right.

Meanwhile Kansas had a great exhibition of "What's Wrong With Kansas" yesterday and the state's Board of Education voted that science teachers no longer base their lessons on... science but on superstitions, primitive religionist dogma and fairy tales. One Board member, Janet Waugh, wasn't pleased with Kansas' step into the distant past: "This is a sad day, not only for Kansas kids, but for Kansas. We're becoming a laughingstock, not only of the nation, but of the world." After the Board pandered to religious groups in 1999, voters elected candidates who promised to be rational. Unfortunately mainstream voters were less vigilant last year and religionist loons again seized control of the Board. Next year Kansans will get to vote on Board members again.