[2005/01/24] Newspaper Editorials Lead Revolt Against King Charles
Newspaper Editorials Lead Revolt Against King Charles 01/24/2005 Some
columnists and editorial writers are gaining boldness to attack the
Darwin-only rule in science education. Some examples:
Senator Rick Santorum (R., Pennsylvania) in The
Morning Call advocated a balanced approach to teaching evolution.
Brian Fahling in The
Union Leader took up the charge to defend Georgia¡¯s ¡°critical
thinking¡± stickers.
Neal McCluskey, writing for the Cato Institute,
argued that the Georgia case is a reason for vouchers. The
¡°one-size-fits-all¡± method of teaching means someone will always be
offended: ¡°Why is it acceptable to force them [Christians] to use their
tax dollars to teach their children something to which they strenuously
object, but unacceptable to place a sticker on textbooks that asks other
people to consider, even for a moment, beliefs contrary to their
own?¡± The answer, he thinks, is privatization. Get
government out of education and let the parents exercise consumer
choice.
John Whitehead, Constitutional attorney, writing for Accuracy
in Academia, agreed with Phillip Johnson that ¡°It¡¯s the Darwinists
who are religious dogmatists.¡±
Jeff Gardner wrote a scathing rebuke of PBS in the Albuquerque
Tribune, after New Mexico affiliate station KNME pulled the
intelligent-design film Unlocking the Mystery of
Life from its schedule after first agreeing to air it, under
pressure from scientists and the ACLU. He mercilessly castigated
¡°the rabidly anti-Christian voices that squeak like greaseless wheels in
the so-called science community¡± for this act of ¡°censorship,¡± and
decided PBS is not only wrong, but irrelevant in today¡¯s TV market.
Want to take part in one of the biggest
revolutions of modern times? Take up the pen, not the sword, and
let your eloquence help bring down the idol of King Charlie the Usurper,
where it can join its mates in the fantasyland section of StalinWorld.