jstoesz, the issue we’re talking about isn’t federal spending or reducing pork for corporations and unions.
It involves the teaching of Biblical Creationism in public school science class and decades of settled law surrounding the Establishment Clause that LIMIT the reach of BOTH federal and state governments (and all local governments that derive their powers from the state) — in matters of faith.
Science is science, the rational inquiry into a physical, experimental and experiential world. The Book of Genesis is religion. Every religion has a ‘Creation Story’. No amount of deception and legalisms will transform Adam and Eve into ‘Science’.
What our Constitution, Amendments and legal traditions in this country have upheld for decades, and what the right-wing fucktards are challenging, is the right to indoctrinate my children with their Christian beliefs.
Now, I may decide to raise my children a certain way, take them to church every Sunday. That’s fine. I want them to be good kids. I may even believe in Adam and Eve. But I don’t have the right to impose my religious beliefs on other kids in that classroom.
