Ethics

Another Creationist School Board

By Ed Brayton

This time it's Brunswick County, North Carolina. And the school board is filled with the usual assortment of ignorami:

The Brunswick County school board is looking for a way for creationism to be taught in the classroom side by side with evolution.

"It's really a disgrace for the state school board to impose evolution on our students without teaching creationism," county school board member Jimmy Hobbs said at Tuesday's meeting. "The law says we can't have Bibles in schools, but we can have evolution, of the atheists."

When asked by a reporter, his fellow board members all said they were in favor of creationism being taught in the classroom.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 24, 2008 (boomark / email).