Office of Senator Clarence

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That is a well written bill regarding military matters and I can say as a son and brother of veterans as far back as the Revolution you have my support.

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Also, many of conscience and faith don't trust what's being taught in the public schools. It was rather dissapointing that Senator Ben, after supporting the bill before Polnut vetoed it voted against overriding the veto. They chose to keep for their friends in the teacher's unions and take from the families of faith and conscience.

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Also, many of conscience and faith don't trust what's being taught in the public schools.

If you make the Assembly this cycle, couldn't you introduce a bill removing those issues (what are they?) from being taught?

A tax credit for Mideast residents who homeschool or send their kids to private is something I would like to make a legislative priority. I'm also working on bill strictly dealing with human trafficking.

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We are concerned that all sides in many educational contraversaries are not being fairly debated in the public class room. Teachers being denied tenure because of idealology not merit.

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But evolution is not fact and shouldn't be taught as such. What I'm saying is that the various views of our beginnings should be taught and debated in our classrooms much like the issue over prayer in school is.

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JCL, are you familiar with Project Steve?

Goes to show that even the scientific community is divided. The evolution side may have a 1% edge but we have Ron and Rand Paul.

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But evolution is not fact and shouldn't be taught as such. What I'm saying is that the various views of our beginnings should be taught and debated in our classrooms much like the issue over prayer in school is.

Look...that's wonderful.  But could you keep this kind of thing in the Religion board, rather than airing your personal politics in this game?

But I'm not the only that airs personal politics.

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Excuse me for interjecting. I attend a Catholic school, and throughout middle school and early high school, the ideas of evolution were clearly explained and whatnot. Hell, they were probably accepted as fact or close to it by the teaching, and probably as fact by the teachers. And that was in a Catholic school. The job of a science class is to teach theories as theories, not to get into a huge debate. The fact that almost no one in my school today believes in the religion is much more the fault of bad religion teachers than anything else. Point is, you want religion, you send your kid home and talk to them at the dinner table, or you send them to a religious school. Evolution is the dominating scientific theory on the creation of life and should be taught as such.

I totally understand that. What I'm advocating is competition of view.

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What's the scientific basis for teaching creationism on par with evolution?

I will yield to the Senator's wishes but President Polnut does bring up a good question that I will answer elsewhere.  

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Excuse me for interjecting. I attend a Catholic school, and throughout middle school and early high school, the ideas of evolution were clearly explained and whatnot. Hell, they were probably accepted as fact or close to it by the teaching, and probably as fact by the teachers. And that was in a Catholic school. The job of a science class is to teach theories as theories, not to get into a huge debate. The fact that almost no one in my school today believes in the religion is much more the fault of bad religion teachers than anything else. Point is, you want religion, you send your kid home and talk to them at the dinner table, or you send them to a religious school. Evolution is the dominating scientific theory on the creation of life and should be taught as such.

The Catholic Church is down with evolution. They got burned on the whole geocentrism thing (or rather a lot of scientists did). In any case, they're trying to stay ahead of the curve on this one. Unfortunately, they're totally missing the boat on all other things sexual and reproductive. Hopefully it won't take them hundreds of years to fix that one.

No, they're getting the sex issues dealt with, especially regarding renegade(ones messing with kids) priests though a bit late. If they, and many other Christian sects want to stay conservative on this, let them.
Look at the Islamic world, they are having kids at the rate many western Christians once did and at some point may out populate the Christian world. That is something I don't want.

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Some actually do. I don't except in the aspects of human and civil liberty.