Teaching Science Instead of Superstition

THERE ARE CURRENTLY FOUR REPUBLICANS seeking the office of Lieutenant Governor of the great state of Texas. The alarming thing about this is that all four of them promise that if elected, they will push hard for teaching creationism in Texas public schools. Any nation which teaches nonsense to its children cannot long endure, a great philosopher once said. Texas has a long history of embracing wacky conservative ideals, unfortunately. Even as we speak there is a strong movement in Texas to run all the abortion providers out of the state, and to do the same with anyone who is gay, or anyone who advocates for gay rights, such as, oh, gay marriage. In the United States there is a proud tradition of individual states telling the federal government to shove it, and the Republic of Texas has led the way. All over America states are legalizing gay marriage and marijuana, in direct defiance of federal lsw. As libertarian as Texas is, you would expect them to legalize marijuana also, but no, that wouldn't be conservative. Hell, as live and let live as texas is, you'd think they wouldn't mind gay folks and marijuana. The federal government, most notably the United States Supreme Court, will, and in fact is already in the process, of stepping in and stopping all this nonsense, this discrimmination against gays and abortion providers, fortunately, but its still alarming, the prejudice. Gay marriage and marijuana, on the other hand, will never be stopped by the feds. The reason we shouldn't teach creationsim in schools in that it isn't science, and we need to be teaching science, not religion. Science is not a quaint story in a book written three thousand years ago. Science is the verifiable fact of evolution through natural selection, and our children must be taught this scientific fact. The great religions of the world, and the great issues associated with them, should be taught in history and literature classes.