Oklahoma House Bill 2211, the "Religious Viewpoints Antidiscrimination Act"

[lsanderson]

Open Thread for Night Owls & Early Birds
by DarkSyde
Sun Mar 16, 2008 at 10:00:47 PM PDT

Sally Kern, Oklahoma State Rep, was a smash hit in the blogosphere last week, ranting against gay Americans saying, among other funny things, they were more dangerous to the US than terrorism (You really have to hear it). But she's outdone herself with Oklahoma HB 2211:

Via Pharyngula -- The bill requires public schools to guarantee students the right to express their religious viewpoints in a public forum, in class, in homework and in other ways without being penalized. If a student's religious beliefs were in conflict with scientific theory, and the student chose to express those beliefs rather than explain the theory in response to an exam question, the student's incorrect response would be deemed satisfactory, according to this bill.

I don't know how many of you have read a student test where the student ignores the question to rant on about about an aspect of Xtianity that they learned about in Sunday School (slightly easier than reading the material that the question considered), but if you live in Oklahoma, you know what to do.

Comments

[ann-totusek.livejournal.com]

I never did that, but if something that came up that I disagreed with what we were taught in class on a test, my answer would run along the lines of "What were were taught in this class was... Not everyone believes that to be correct, some other people think X, and some other people think Y."

I've only seen it...

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

As a bald attempt to avoid answering the question in the test. If I just wander around in religious ecstasy for a few paragraphs, I'm sure I'll get an A... Yeah right, a collapsed A with a couple o' bars... F