indignation

I love my ridiculous home state of Texas. Sometimes it’s hard living here, what with the state being so solidly red (LBJ is not resting peacefully), which leads to some crazy debates in our state agencies.

Like this week, the State Board of Education debated whether or not schools should teach the weaknesses in the theory of evolution.

Now before I go any further, it’s time for some disclosure. I grew up Catholic and I’m still a practicing Catholic (though probably a little more cafeteria Catholic than the Pope might like). Still, I’m a lector, my kids are altar servers and my wife teaches cathecism. I even have a brother who is a deacon in Dallas.

All that being said, I don’t cotton with creationism. On top of that, it was never taught in my nearly 12 years of Catholic eduction. Nor was it taught at the Methodist university I attended.

So it was very refreshing to read a column in the local paper that pointed out that parochial schools are better about dealing with the evolution vs. creation debate than most politicians.

The board came close, but it didn’t change language in the science curriculum. But there’s always another year, and this ridiculousness is far from done.

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