Senator Mike Fair is at it again.

Once again Sen Fair is interested in wasting the tax payer's dollars introducing a bill aimed at promoting his superstition and attacking science. He's trying to be clever this time, but unfortunately clever and Mike Fair don't go together.

A BILL

TO AMEND ARTICLE 1, CHAPTER 29 OF TITLE 59 OF THE 1976 CODE, RELATING TO GENERAL PROVISIONS CONCERNING SUBJECTS OF INSTRUCTION IN THE STATE'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS, BY ADDING SECTION 59-29-15, TO PROVIDE THAT CURRICULUM USED TO TEACH STUDENTS ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF MANKIND MUST MAINTAIN NEUTRALITY BETWEEN RELIGIOUS FAITHS AND BETWEEN RELIGION AND NON-RELIGION, AND TO PROVIDE THAT CURRICULUM THAT DOES NOT MAINTAIN THE REQUIRED NEUTRALITY MUST BE REVISED OR REPLACED AS SOON AS PRACTICABLE.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION 1. Article 1, Chapter 29 of Title 59 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:

"Section 59-29-15. (A) The General Assembly finds:

(1) that the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution makes wholly applicable to the states the First Amendment's mandate that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of or prohibiting the free expression of religion;

(2) that the individual freedom of conscience protected by the First Amendment embraces the right to select any religious faith or none at all;

(3) a proper respect for the First Amendment compels the State to pursue a course of neutrality toward religion, favoring neither one religion over other religions, nor religion over non-religion or the inverse;

(4) that atheism is a school of thought that takes a position on religion and the existence and importance of a Supreme Being;

(5) that the United State Supreme Court recognizes atheism as equivalent to a religion for the purposes of the First Amendment; and

(6) that teaching atheism or any of its principals, including, but not limited to, the denial of the existence of a Supreme Being, as a philosophical system of beliefs or in a manner that affirmatively opposes or shows hostility to religion, thus exhibiting a preference for those who believe in no religion over those who hold religious beliefs, violates the First Amendment.

(B) The State Board of Education shall examine all curriculum in use in this State that purports to teach students about the origins of mankind to determine whether the curriculum maintains neutrality toward religion, favoring neither one religion over other religions, nor religion over non-religion, including atheism. Related to non-religion, the examination must include a review as to whether the curriculum contains a sense of affirmatively opposing or showing hostility to religion, thus preferring those who believe in no religion over those who hold religious beliefs. The duty to review curriculum imposed by this section is continuing and must reoccur periodically after the initial review in order to assure compliance with this section.

(C) If the board's examination determines that any curriculum fails to maintain the neutrality required by subsection (B), the offending curriculum must be revised or replaced as soon as practicable, but no later than the beginning of the next academic year.

(D) This section does not prevent classes being taught pursuant to Section 59-29-230."

SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

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This web page was last updated on May 26, 2009 at 10:34 AM

Isn't that cute? Check out section B especially. What on earth could he be referring to?????

I'd like to know where Sen. Fair thinks that atheism is being taught in the schools?

I should have known this was coming, it's been a while since Sen. Fair and his group of fucking morons did something like this.

Rocket Surgery

This sounds fishy

This story is reminds me of a few my friend who worked in an emergency room used to tell me. I'll leave you with the last sentence first.

He was later admitted into counseling to help him overcome any trauma.

Then go read the article


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Update: Here's a medical report on this incident with video. Seriously.

The Jenny McCarthy song

Ray Comfort gives away free Red Lobster coupons.

Ray "never met a straw man he didn't like" Comfort is giving away coupons to Red Lobster.

I would like to send you a voucher for $25 to take your wife/friend out for a meal at Red Lobster. Sue and I are personally paying for this as a small gesture to show you that I (we) care about you.

Red Lobster?


He really does hate us.

Creationist Goggles.

ht LOL God

Atheism

Dom DeLuise

National Day of Reason

Celebrate May 7th, 2009 National Day of Reason.

Hamthrax

I refuse to call it swine flu or Influenza A (H1N1).

From now on I'm calling it Hamthrax.

1976 Swine Flu public service announcements

SWINE FLU SCAM ALERT

Thanks Phil

Dumbest thing written on the internet today

And it's a big shocker that it comes from king of all idiots, Ray Comfort.

The spread of the so-called 'swine flu' demonstrates yet again how useless and sometimes deadly a mutation can be.