{"id":5917,"date":"2006-01-02T00:58:29","date_gmt":"2006-01-02T05:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=5917"},"modified":"2006-01-02T01:26:29","modified_gmt":"2006-01-02T06:26:29","slug":"no-kid-gloves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=5917","title":{"rendered":"NO KID GLOVES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t care if he <em>is<\/em> only 17.<\/p>\n<p>Rudy Takala, guest writer at the conservative\/Christian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therealitycheck.org\/GuestColumnist\/rtakala010106.htm\">TheRealityCheck.org<\/a> needs to review his lessons in framing an argument.  The former HEK is all up in arms about the Dover decision&#8211; it&#8217;s unconstitutional,  anti-Christian, blah, blah, blah.  All the typical right-wing\/fundie talking points.  And then he destroys his own argument:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Constitution was conceived to protect all Americans against the agendas of any who would use the government in advancing their own personal interests or beliefs. Because humans tend to be alike in their penchant for exploiting power, the means to that end was a limitation on power. The solution was not suppressing particular groups in society.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Exactly.  The Constitution was designed to protect from the tyranny of the majority.  Like, say, a fundamentalist Christian school board dictating to biology teachers that they must read a statement in class that evolution was suspect and that the students, some of whom might not be fundamentalists\/creationists, might want to consider the new and improved creationism, Intelligent Design.  After all, 2000 years ago a man died on a cross.  Can&#8217;t someone on the Dover school board take a stand for Him?<\/p>\n<p>The issues in Kitzmiller are very simple.  The Dover board was on public record wanting to teach creationism in the schools.  They thought that ID was the way to do that.  The Court said no.  That&#8217;s the <em>real<\/em> reality check.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t care if he is only 17. Rudy Takala, guest writer at the conservative\/Christian TheRealityCheck.org needs to review his lessons in framing an argument. The former HEK is all up in arms about the Dover decision&#8211; it&#8217;s unconstitutional, anti-Christian, blah, blah, blah. All the typical right-wing\/fundie talking points. And then he destroys his own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}