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So you're arguing that these drugs don't get you high?

That's what I'm told about marijuana. It has no effect whatsoever which is why everyone wants to smoke it. No matter how many articles come out about people jumping out windows, shooting themselves, ignoring train whistles, thinking it's funny to give someone laced food without their knowledge, or driving the wrong way in traffic and killing people, I'm always told it's not the weed. It has to be something else because marijuana is perfectly safe.

2014: ~~Quake~~ "Let's get the hell outta here! At least snow ain't fall over and kill ya."

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If I had my child in a Tennessee school and the Teacher started using tax payer money to advance creationism, I would be the first to line up to sue the school

I don't think you've ever lived in the Bible Belt. You and your kid probably would be cut out from the community before you even got to that point. Everyone is Christian. Everyone prays together. One of the first questions people ask on meeting strangers is, "What church do you attend?" If you sued the school, expect yourself and your poor kid to be face serious repercussions.

There were nasty phone calls and confrontations in restaurants and on the streets.

Not very Christian by my understanding of the word, but that's the Bible Belt.

Quite right. It's already happened. Cf McCollum v. Board of Education. The activities of Mrs. McCollum's neighbors (as well as plenty of nut jobs from around the country) was reprehensible to say the least. Mrs. McCollum and her kids talk about this in Jay Rosenstein's documentary film.

Sir Peter Medawar (see below) had it nailed.

The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox to the dotty, that we can hardly wonder at its yielding a more bounteous harvest of gobbledegook than the rest of the world put together. -- Sir Peter Medawar

If I had my child in a Tennessee school and the Teacher started using tax payer money to advance creationism, I would be the first to line up to sue the school

I don't think you've ever lived in the Bible Belt. You and your kid probably would be cut out from the community before you even got to that point. Everyone is Christian. Everyone prays together. One of the first questions people ask on meeting strangers is, "What church do you attend?" If you sued the school, expect yourself and your poor kid to be face serious repercussions.

There were nasty phone calls and confrontations in restaurants and on the streets.

Not very Christian by my understanding of the word, but that's the Bible Belt.

To modify its behavior, the legislature needs a way BEFOREHAND to tell that it's passing a bad law. Where would you draw the line?

The same place we draw it when the government isn't involved. Filing a lawsuit and losing is one thing, but filing a frivolous lawsuit is another. If the court rules that your case had no merit, then you can be required to pay the other side's court costs.

Likewise, there's a difference between a law of questionable constitutionality and a law that's clearly unconstitutional.

It's not like this is anything new. There was a big court case in Dover, PA a few months ago. The school board tried to force Creationism on the students, and some of the parents sued. The board was in obvious violation of well-established constitutional precedent, and they wound up having to pay the parents' legal bills.

(Source: http://www.yorkdispatch.com/local/ci_3535139)

As much as I'd like Cushman and his fellow anti-science zealots out on their asses, I'd say that his zero votes in one precinct has the stench of fraud on it. The vote is disturbingly close, so Cushman would be right to contest the election. This won't effect the results much even if he were to gain a seat, because it would then only be 7 to 1 in favor of science on the Dover school board.

He was referring to Dover, PA, not Kansas. A link to an article explaining the views of the winning candidates is http://www.yorkdispatch.com/local/ci_3196053.

All 8 of the Dover school board's intelligent designers just had their asses handed to them by the voters today.