No sooner that I posted the current status of anti-evolution legislation that Glenn Branch posted on a new “academic freedom” bill in Alabama. HB 300 is sponsored by Republican (seeing a trend here?) David Grimes and has been sent to committee. Unsurprisingly, it’s the same old DI boilerplate that is popping up everywhere.
So the field of play for 2009 now looks like:
- Mississippi - disclaimer - dead in committee
- New Mexico - “strengths and weaknesses” - in committee
- Iowa - “academic freedom” - in committee
- Oklahoma - “strengths and weaknesses” - in committee
- Alabama - “academic freedom” - in committee.
- Texas - "strengths and weaknesses" - at state board
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NCSE has announced that two remaining anti-evolution bills have died in committee: Alabama & Missouri.
NCSE has announced that two remaining anti-evolution bills have died in committee: Alabama & Missouri.
The DI-inspired "Academic Freedom/Strengths & Weaknesses" bill that was in committee in New Mexico has failed to get a hearing before clo
Yet another defeat for the anti-evolutionists. NCSE is reporting that Florida's Senate Bill 2396 has died in committee. To recap:
I'd like to see a black "X" in Mississippi (and hopefully other states as the bills fail).
Why did we fight to keep the South again?
(Oh, right; the port of New Orleans.)
Florida is in play again, too:
If this one passes (and Rep. Alan Hays, the sponsor of the the "critical analysis" bill in the House last year says it's likely to pass this time in a close vote), get ready for Dover II.
The one in Florida is particularly nasty, in that it doesn't merely 'allows' the teaching of nonsense, but REQUIRES it.