Thu 23 Jun 2005
Some guy wrote a hilarious and sarcastic open letter to the Kansas school board regarding their efforts to have Intelligent Design taught along side Evolution in public schools.
This guy does bring up one of the reasons I oppose any overt religion being taught in the classroom. There are just too many religions out there and, if you are going to not establish an official state religion, you need to teach all of them. Why do the Christians get a prayer at commencement but not the Jews or Muslims? If you will have a school sponsored bible club, what about a school sponsored wicca club? If we teach evolution and intelligent design, we also need to teach about the Flying Spaghetti Monster or the Grad Student Theory of Creation.
Of course if we stopped teaching these things we are not doing right by our children. The issue then is to end the practice of one-size-fits-all schooling. If you end the government’s monopoly on providing education then Intelligent Design parents can send kids to schools that teach that theory, while secular minded parents can send their kids to schools that teach evolution.
Neal Boortz is correct when he says that all this nonsense about evolution and prayer in schools isn’t about making sure that your kids get the education you want for them. It is about making sure you can impose your beliefs on someone else’s kid. And both the right and the left are guilty of that.
