Update on how South Carolina does "science"

[eustacetilley]

eustacetilley wrote:
[quote=eustacetilley]
Note this juicy Section:

SECTION 2. Subsequent to this act's effective date there is a moratorium on the enactment of legislation establishing official state symbols and emblems until such time as the General Assembly directly by legislative enactment removes this moratorium.

Well, that's it for now. No more Official State Anything.
Note that they already have an Official State Wild Game Bird- The Turkey.

Eustace

Oh, I just had a funny thought- given the careful wording, would new legislation removing all that bible crap be forbidden by Section 2, because that would be enacting legislation establishing official state symbols? After all, The Columbian Mammoth, which was created on the Sixth Day with the other beasts of the field, is not the same thing as a simple Columbian Mammoth at all.
But maybe this is just obvious to everyone else.

Eustace
I just had a funnier thought- going through all the various innocuous versions of the bill, the language adding the biblical aspects was added on...
April 1.

http://www.scstatehouse.gov/query.php?search=DOC&searchtext=fossil&category=LEGISLATION&session=120&conid=7514380&result_pos=0&keyval=1204482&numrows=10

I know that this is just a coincidence, but still...

Eustace

[Sam3]

beagledave wrote:
But more importantly, at least they are protecting the state from the recruitment of lesbians.

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/04/08...-lesbians/

How to break a university (from beagledave's linked article):

thinkprogress.org wrote: The cancellation of Hendrix’s show is only the latest attempt by state lawmakers to censor LGBT content at state universities. Last month, the South Carolina House passed a budget that cut funding at USC Upstate, as well as the College of Charleston, because the universities asked students to read books that included stories about LGBT people.

Watch for Republican-led legislatures to start trying this in other states as well. The end of liberal education as we know it, if it succeeds.

[Speedy]

They are just a bunch of good ole boys concerned about their own sexuality.

Sam3 wrote:
[quote=beagledave]
But more importantly, at least they are protecting the state from the recruitment of lesbians.

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/04/08...-lesbians/

How to break a university (from beagledave's linked article):

thinkprogress.org wrote: The cancellation of Hendrix’s show is only the latest attempt by state lawmakers to censor LGBT content at state universities. Last month, the South Carolina House passed a budget that cut funding at USC Upstate, as well as the College of Charleston, because the universities asked students to read books that included stories about LGBT people.

Watch for Republican-led legislatures to start trying this in other states as well. The end of liberal education as we know it, if it succeeds.