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DEL.ICIO.USFor some reason, Bridges decides to give evolution bill a rest this session
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
For the first time in 11 years, state Rep. Ben Bridges (R-Cleveland) won’t introduce a bill to hinder the teaching of evolution in Georgia, according to last week’s White County News.
You’ll remember the memo that jumped up in state legislatures across the country, the one that declared evolution to have religious roots in Jewish mysticism.
It also sent readers to a web site that says, contrary to Copernicus, Galileo and NASA, the earth doesn’t revolve around the sun.
Bridges’ name was at the top of that memo, though the north Georgia lawmaker says he never saw it, or read it. An acquaintance apparently was the author.
Friends like that are quite common. They tell your girlfriend she’s fat, or declare the theory of relativity to be a kabbalistic fraud, then leave it to an embarrassed you to explain what they really meant.
Anyway, Bridges has blamed people like us for the hoopla. “This thing got blowed out of proportion,” he told the newspaper. “I ain’t guilty of anything. I regret the media made what they made out of it.”
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By tribalecho
February 26, 2007 1:28 PM | Link to this
Oh Rep. Bridges, I know how it is. A friend starts talking about those politicallly correct forced diversity muslim-lovin’ libruls, they mention keeping God out of the classroom so those people can turn your children gay, and of course you agree, and suddenly those pinko news media bin Laden’s are laughing at you because your friend said gravity was a Jewish conspiracy.
That’s just not fair!