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To: longnshort who wrote (855137)5/8/2015 6:44:46 AM
From: Mongo2116   of 1586791
 
Alabama lawmaker: My bill protects kids from learning ‘they came from a monkey’


JOAN SHIPPS
07 MAY 2015 AT 16:16 ET

April 30, 2015, an Alabama Republican introduced legislation to allow the state’s public school teachers to substitute lessons in the assigned science curriculum with religious teachings.

The bill’s sponsor is Mack Butler, who represents the interests of Alabama’s 30th District at the state Capitol. Formally titled H.B. 592, the bill would see approved science surrounding “biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, and human cloning” subject to religious scrutiny by teachers in Alabama’s public schools

Butler is now squarely in the sights of free speech and science policy advocates nationwide.

“This is a thinly-veiled attempt to open the door to religious fanatics who don’t believe in evolution, climate change or other scientifically-based teaching in our schools,” Susan Watson, executive director of the ACLU of Alabama, tells AL.com. “It also opens Alabama to costly litigation that it just cannot afford.”
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