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They laid low for more than a year, waiting for attention to go elsewhere, but the Louisiana Family Forum and right wing Republican legislators are now poised to use Louisiana Governor (and part time exorcist) Bobby Jindal’s stealth creationist bill to sneak the teaching of this anti-science doctrine into public ...
Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Creationism, Education, Anti-Science
Louisiana justice of the peace Keith Bardwell has refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple, but denies that he’s a racist. He’s just concerned. About ... you know ... the children. To prove that he’s a tolerant, non-racist kind of guy, Bardwell notes that he has “piles ...
Louisiana, Interracial Marriage, Racism, Robert Stacy McCain
Louisiana Governor (and part time exorcist) Bobby Jindal’s stealth creationist bill is starting to bear rancid fruit, as the state’s top school board approves new rules intended to make it difficult for residents to challenge the teaching of creationism in science classes. Pseudo-science promoted by ignorant religious fanatics takes another ...
Evolution, Creationism, discovery institute, Science, Bobby Jindal, Louisiana
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who signed into law an “academic freedom” bill intended to sneak the teaching of creationism into Louisiana schools, has been using state-funded helicopters to fly him to church on Sundays: Governor’s Sunday helicopter travels have come at taxpayers’ expense. On Father’s Day this year, Gov. ...
A new survey of Louisiana residents shows that only 39% believe that the theory of evolution is supported by scientific evidence. And that’s just sad. But even sadder, in a pathetically ironic way: Bobby Jindal’s wife has started a foundation to promote science education in Louisiana. Among those ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, Exorcism, David Barton, Wallbuilders
A Republican candidate endorsed by Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal has lost big. Baton Rouge lawyer Dan Claitor beat businessman and fellow Republican Lee Domingue — the candidate with Gov. Bobby Jindal’s backing — to win the state Senate District 16 seat in Saturday’s special election. Claitor garnered 11,713 or ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, Exorcism, David Barton, Wallbuilders
Here’s Governor Bobby Jindal interviewed by Morley Safer on 60 Minutes: [Video] (Hat tip: Hot Air.)
Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, GOP, Republican Party, CBS News, 60 Minutes
This morning Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal was on Meet the Press, and despite the fact that David Gregory’s call for questions on his blog resulted in many suggestions that Gregory ask Jindal about his support for creationism and his other extreme social conservative positions, there wasn’t a single question from ...
Evolution, Creationism, discovery institute, Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, Exorcism, David Barton, Wallbuilders
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is on Meet the Press this Sunday; David Gregory has a post on his blog asking for questions: The View From Here: I need YOUR thoughts on Jindal. (Hat tip: Cronus.) Thinking about the interview with Governor Bobby Jindal Sunday. He’s thought to be a ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, Exorcism, David Barton, Wallbuilders
As we noted last Saturday, the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, a major scientific organization, is boycotting Louisiana for its 2011 convention, in protest of Governor Bobby Jindal’s promotion and signing of a stealth creationism bill. The New Orleans Times-Picayune has more on the story: National science group boycotting ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Louisiana, Bobby Jindal
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal promoted and signed into law a stealth creationism bill that will allow the teaching of “intelligent design” in the science classrooms of Louisiana public schools, and now the fallout has begun. One of America’s leading scientific organizations, the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, has announced ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Louisiana, Bobby Jindal
One of the prime objectives of the anti-evolution Discovery Institute is to influence what’s taught in public schools, and this involves influencing the textbooks used in biology classes. For years, one of the successes of the creationist movement was that some school districts selected an infamous book titled Of Pandas ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, dover, Explore Evolution
This isn’t a “We Got Mail!” post, but we’ve received dozens of emails just like this one published in Louisiana’s News-Star, defending Gov. Bobby Jindal’s stealth creationist bill: Law creates pride in La. (These are the same people who insist their agenda isn’t religious.) I thank our legislators and ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Louisiana, Bobby Jindal
The next creationist shoe has dropped in Louisiana, where the State Board of Education adopted a policy aimed at introducing “intelligent design” creationism into science classes this week, taking advantage of the Discovery Institute-sponsored “academic freedom” bill signed into law by Governor Bobby Jindal: Louisiana Creates: New Pro-Intelligent Design Rules ...
Evolution, Creationism, Religion, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Louisiana, Bobby Jindal
At Scientific American, here’s an excellent in-depth article by Glenn Branch and Eugenie C. Scott, on recent developments in the ongoing Creationism Wars for control of the science classes of America: The Latest Face of Creationism in the Classroom. Professors routinely give advice to students but usually while their ...
Evolution, Creationism, Intelligent Design, Science, discovery institute, Texas, Bobby Jindal, Louisiana, dover
Hurricane Gustav has reached Louisiana, but it’s decreased in intensity to a Cat 2 storm and so far the levees are holding. There’s going to be major damage, but it’s beginning to look like it may not be quite the monster everyone was fearing. Here’s the latest infrared satellite imagery ...
A lot of people were very unhappy about that Louisiana legislative pay raise, and Bobby Jindal has had a change of heart: Jindal vetoes legislative raise. BATON ROUGE — Gov. Bobby Jindal announced today that he has vetoed the legislative pay raise. After days of saying he would not ...
This is important background information on the Discovery Institute, the main hub of the repackaged creationism that’s been dubbed “intelligent design.” The Wedge Strategy is an internal Discovery Institute memo never intended to be released to the public, that was leaked to the Internet in 1999. It spells out their ...
LGF, Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Creationism, discovery institute
Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal has signed a stealth creationist bill into law, and American educational standards take a huge step backward: Science law could set tone for Jindal. The creationist front group called the Discovery Institute is quietly crowing, and maintaining the fiction that the bill is not religiously-based. ...
LGF, Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Creationism
We’ve had a few contentious posts recently about Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal’s support for the “intelligent design” hoax, and the stealth creationist bill recently passed by the LA legislature, but the citizens of Louisiana are much angrier at Jindal right now for something else: Angry Louisianans warn Jindal not to ...