The National Association of State Boards of Education will elect officers in July, and for one office, president-elect, there is only one candidate: a member of the Kansas school board who supported its efforts against the teaching of evolution.
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The candidate is Kenneth R. Willard, a Kansas Republican who voted with the conservative majority in 2005 when the school board changed the state’s science standards to allow inclusion of intelligent design, an ideological cousin of creationism.
Read it in the NY Times here.
It’s unclear what this will mean for Pastafarians. My guess is that it will help our cause if Mr. Willard is elected.
Someone needs to send Kansas some pasta to make them see the error in their ways.
You’d be surprised DPG, at the number of people I’ve spoken to, about the international ID push, who are unaware that all this is even happening :((
When I’ve started telling some I’ve spoken to about it, they’ve stared at me slack jawed! I am an Aussie, as you know, and we’re fairly secular here…for the moment. Some of it is being imported though, and religion is also being brought into more and more current political discussions. :((
I pray to FSM the ID movement doesn’t get a chance to grow legs here like it has in some other countries! Aussies have a habit of a “she’ll be right mate” attitude…just the the type of situation that may allow such a movement to grow here…recognising the danger only once it has become large enough!
@Nikkiee & Beth(In no particular order, I don’t play favorites with my wenches)
Yep, it’s a good plan, but I highly doubt Bobby will do it.
ALRIGHT!!! Somebody needs to do something extremely bold and controversial, on the verge of total insanity, and remember, it has to be really heretical!
RAmen
Can someone still enter the race for office
because i’m not from Kansas but if we could get someone sympathetic to our cause then that sounds like a good idea
Did someone say Insanity?
Nah, running for the race in the name of a satirical religion won’t get us very far. We need something that screams “Noble cause!!!”.
Any suggestions?
RAmen
Our Noble Cause: further enlightenment of humanity.
Noble Cause: to be a gas that when not ionized has a complete shell of valence electrons, and to live on the right side of the periodic table
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Sorry about the pun, but I couldn’t resist.
This is indeed good news! A friend of creationism is a friend of patafarianism! Unless… you don’t suppose he only supports Christian creationism do you?
We definitely need a Pastafarian, or at least someone who worships the great Athe, to get the spot.
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In further news, I wore a pirate hat in my public place of learning, and was forced to take it off despite pointing out that the student handbook specifically says religious head coverings are allowed; I even have a good friend who now wears a yamaka daily(you know who you are). My teacher not only refused to believe it was actually in the handbook, but when I offered to prove I hadn’t made it up, she wouldn’t even allow me to prove it to her!
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In further further news, a Jehova’s Witness came to my door sometime today(unfortunately I was out, so I couldn’t counter-teach them of our Noodly Creator), they are everywhere now. I was left two pamphlets; these hardly count as magazines. One, the infamous Watchtower, draws in victims under the guise of help to parents who have lost a child. The second, Awake, had on its cover a picture depicting a homeless person in front of a fancy restaurant, sporting an article title of “Coping in a World of Unequal Opportunities”. The latter seemed exceptionally funny, since the widely admitted richest man in America, Bill Gates, is an atheist, and it seems they want people to want to be successful.
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Anyway, I’m willing to do lots of craAaAaAaAzy stuff.
To Avatar of Reason…
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“Noble Cause: to be a gas that when not ionized has a complete shell of valence electrons, and to live on the right side of the periodic table.”
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HA HA HA HA HA!! That is brilliant!! Don’t you just love chemistry?
If no one else opposes Kenneth Willard and he wins the spot, then perhaps we could start a letter-writing campaign to him regarding the FSM having equal time with creationism. We could draft a couple sample letters and whoever wants to send one could choose the one they like, print it out and sign it, and mail it to Mr. Willard. We might get some press that way, who knows.
DutchPastaGuy
May 20th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
@Wench Nikkiee
“But DPG
Means we can refresh our push to have Pastafarianism taught in science class. :)))â€
Hahaha. Maybe Alchemist is right and I should get a better sense of humour about things. Anyone care to give me that for my birthday today?
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I could send you some :)
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But this does show that to succeed in politics one does not need a functioning brain.
Has nobody thought of the obvious solution? Bobby himself should run against this cretin. Wouldn’t that be delicious? Maybe this is the break we have been looking for to bring this thing to the next level. It would serve the bastards right.
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That’s a free-floating “bastards” there. It’s early and I’m not fully caffeinated.
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This gets me thinking, though, to check into my local school boards. Maybe I can get involved. Maybe there’s some yahoo here who needs to be opposed. I feel very oppositional today.
Go Saucy, go get ‘em girl!
Thanks, RDPW!
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By the way, I guess my plan for Bobby won’t work unless he happens to be a representative of a school board and a member of the National Association of State Boards of Education. Well, at least it gives me food for thought.
I know something BOLD and BIG that we can do, but since me and a few others are still working on this idea I shall leave you in suspense until we actually do it. :P
Could’t bobby run?
To Kev3056… ooh, I can’t wait to see what the surprise is!