Support for Louisiana repeal effort

What you might be thinking of here are anti-bullying measures that some schools have been instituting lately. Some kids apparently need to be reminded that it's not okay to beat up some other kid because he or she is gay or might be gay or kinda looks gay.Of course, it's not okay for kids to be beating each other up at all. I think that the point is not so much to single out gay or gay-like kids as some special protected class, but to make sure that they're as protected from bullying as any other kid.No-one's trying to impose any opinion here, other than the notion that there's no special exemption that makes harassing some kids not against the rules.

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Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
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I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.
- John Stuart Mill

I know how that feels. I once got roasted by Dr Adequate for one of the many, many math errors that I've made while making an argument here, and it was not pleasant. It helps to have a healthy dose of humility. I figure that there are people here who know things that I do not, and it can only do me good to make a mistake and then be corrected. It's one of the best ways to learn.In my college, where all the classes were small seminars, we used to say that if you haven't changed your mind about something by the end of a discussion, then you haven't learned anything.Stay calm, respect the local customs, and be grateful for the opportunity to change your mind.

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Your beliefs do not effect reality and evidently reality does not effect your beliefs.
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Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
-Steven Colbert

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I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.
- John Stuart Mill

It's sad that there aren't any churches in Weed, CA where children can learn about religion. Do they only teach biology and physics in Sunday school there?Edited by ZenMonkey, : Rhetorical clarity.

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Your beliefs do not effect reality and evidently reality does not effect your beliefs.
-Theodoric

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Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
-Steven Colbert

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I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.
- John Stuart Mill

Well, it might not be un-Constitutional to remove evolution from a school district's science curriculum, just as it probably wouldn't be un-Constitutional to remove algebra from their math curriculum. It would certainly be doing them a disservice though, wouldn't it?The religious right has for years been taking advantage of the fact that most voters don't really pay attention to the names at the bottom of the ballot for apparently minor local offices like school boards. Thus they've been able to elect mobs of fellow anti-science ignoramuses into positions in which they can attack teaching anything that doesn't agree with their stunted religious world view. Our educational standards have continued to sink as a result.

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Your beliefs do not effect reality and evidently reality does not effect your beliefs.
-Theodoric

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Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
-Steven Colbert

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I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.
- John Stuart Mill

So if there are atheists among those protesting this attempt to sabotage science, then it's an atheist conspiracy, and if there aren't any atheists, it's an atheist conspiracy?I see. So research scientists are doing ongoing research, and somehow this hasn't made headlines? Shocking.Must be an atheist conspiracy. So attorneys got a judge to agree that religiously-based attempts to inject non-science into public schools were religiously-based? Must be - wait for it - an atheist conspiracy. Modern biological science is based on the work of 19th century scientists in about the same way that modern physics is based on the 19th century work of James Clerk Maxwell, Michael Faraday, and Hans Christian ‘rsted. Many interesting insights and discoveries laying a foundation for further developments. There have been people doing science in both fields since the 19th century, I believe. And who would that be again?You seem to have this idea that anything that's not explicitly religious is somehow atheistic. Are you also against atheist calculus classes, atheist English classes, and atheist drivers ed?

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Darwin’s Dangerous Idea / Daniel Dennett - 1995
The End of Faith/ Sam Harris - 2004
The God Delusion/ Richard Dawkins - 2006
Letter to a Christian Nation/ Sam Harris - 2006
The Atheist Universe / David Mills - 2006
Breaking the Spell/ Daniel Dennett - 2006
Everything you know about God is wrong/ Russ Kick - 2007
The Quotable Atheist / Jack Huberman - 2007
The Atheist Bible / Joan Konner - 2007
Nothing - Something to Believe / Lalli Nica - 2007
The Portable Atheist / Christopher Hitchens - 2007
God is Not Great / Christopher Hitchens - 2007
God - the failed hypothesis - How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist / Victor Stenger - 2007
50 Reasons People Give For Believing in God/ Guy Harrison — 2008
Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America’s Leading Atheists / Barker/Dawkins — 2008

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Well, those are some interesting books. What does that have to do with anything?There's quite a bit more nonsense in your post, but that's enough for me for a while.Does it ever occur to you that the reason that you get ROFLpiled every time you post something here is that it takes about 10 to 15 people to cover all the things that you get wrong?

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Your beliefs do not effect reality and evidently reality does not effect your beliefs.
-Theodoric

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Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
-Steven Colbert

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I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.
- John Stuart Mill

How do you know that that's necessarily an inaccurate statement? After all, we don't really know anything about marc9000's home life.

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Your beliefs do not effect reality and evidently reality does not effect your beliefs.
-Theodoric

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Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
-Steven Colbert

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I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.
- John Stuart Mill