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Originally Posted by dissention
Even more proof of Democratic incompetence:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/27/po...gion.html?_r=1
Democrats in Georgia and Alabama, borrowing an idea usually advanced by conservative Republicans, are promoting Bible classes in the public schools. Their Republican opponents are in turn denouncing them as "pharisees," a favorite term of liberals for politicians who exploit religion.
Democrats in both states have introduced bills authorizing school districts to teach courses modeled after a new textbook, "The Bible and Its Influence." It was produced by the nonpartisan, ecumenical Bible Literacy Project and provides an assessment of the Bible's impact on history, literature and art that is academic and detached, if largely laudatory.
The Democrats who introduced the bills said they hoped to compete with Republicans for conservative Christian voters. "Rather than sitting back on our heels and then being knocked in our face, we are going to respond in a thoughtful way," said Kasim Reed, a Georgia state senator from Atlanta and one of the sponsors of the bill. "We are not going to give away the South anymore because we are unwilling to talk about our faith."
In an interview, Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, promised that Democrats would do a better job talking about values to religious voters. "We have done it in a secular way, and we don't have to," he said, adding, "I think teaching the Bible as literature is a good thing." |
I missed this post last night. But I just read this article online this morning, and thought about this whole conversation of how the Dems are selling us out!
The article I read expanded a little more. It said that, in Georgia at least, the course they're proposing would teach how the bible has impacted history, art and literature. In theory, I don't really have a problem with such a class if it's a liberal arts
elective with that kind of content. As long as it's not a required class, and isn't teaching or pushing religion. But it's so obvious that these senators are doing this as an attempt win Christian votes and distance themself from the left. And it's also opening a whole can of worms.
The article I read didn't specify how the class would be taught in Alabama. But the way they talked about how religious Alabama is, and the fact that they want prayer in the public schools, I get the feeling their course would be more of a religion class. And I'm not sure if it would be an elective, or required. But I get the feeling that if the bill passes in either state, even if the classes are elective liberal arts classes and not religion classes, it will be taken a step further and a step further until religion is fully entrenched in the public school. Another step to wipe out public education.
I can't understand why "liberal" has become such a dirty word, and why we can't keep religion the hell out of government. These so-called Dems are blatantly pandering, and are worse than those that are simply sitting on their asses going along with the status quo.