Livingston, LA School Board To Implement Discovery Institute's "Academic Freedom" Law

Barbara Forrest, author of Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design, has a major blog post addressing the current maneno in Louisiana. A Parish school board there wants to place creationism on equal or higher footing than evolution. Read Barbara's piece here.

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It is just going to cost them a bunch of money. They have openly proclaimed that they are trying to push creationism into science class. They did not even call it ID or criticism of evolution.
I love their argument "We all believe in it, why can't we get it in?" that is like "We all put ketchup on everything, why can't we get the home economics teachers to tell the kids to use more ketchup?"

Dover with Polydactyly and cleft palate.

Let us hope for another Judge Jones, and not some creationist activist judge. In the current legal climate, I'm not confident "Kitzmiller" or "Edwards" would be upheld.

Well, when this goes to court (I'm saddened by what some brave parents or teachers would have to endure), I will send money to support the plaintiffs.