Anti-science follies in state legislatures, 2011-12

A while ago, a post on the NCSE web site declared that in 2012 at least six bills opposed to the teaching of the theory of evolution (many of which also opposed even the mention of scientific research into anthropogenic global warming) had been prefiled or proposed by state legislators in states ranging from Indiana to Oklahoma. If you also take all of 2011 into account, this means that no less than 13 such bills have been proposed in a period of slightly over a year. Although the following information is available on the NCSE web site, I thought that it'd be instructive to list each bill and its sponsors over that period of time. The listings are according to date of filing or report, state, number of bill and sponsors of that bill (and their party affiliation and district in the legislative house they're seated in) in order.

2011

January 5th, Kentucky: House Bill 169: Tim Moore (R-26th)
January 13th, Missouri: House Bill 195; Andew Koenig (R-88th), 13 others
January 19th, Oklahoma: Senate Bill 554; Josh Brecheen (R-6th)
January 20th, Oklahoma: House Bill 1551; Sally Kern (R-84th)
February 1st, New Mexico: House Bill 302; Thomas A. Anderson (R-29th)
February 9th, Tennessee: House Bill 368; Bill Dunn (R-16th)
February 16th, Tennessee: Senate Bill 893: Bo Watson (R-11th)   
December 21st, New Hampshire; House Bill 1148; Jerry Bergevin (R-17th)
December 21st, New Hampshire: House Bill 1457; Gary Hopper (R-7th) and John Burt (R-7th)
December 29th, Indiana: Senate Bill 89; Dennis Kruse (R-14th)

2012

January 10th: Missouri, House Bill 1227; Rick Brattin (R-124th), 5 others
January 11th: Missouri, House Bill 1276: Andrew Koenig (R-88th), 13 others
January 20th, Oklahoma, Senate Bill 1742; Josh Brecheen (R-6th)

(Also available at Lurker)

Frothy: ever the classy, sane individual

Seriously, what in the hell is wrong with this man? And why does he keep making statements like this?

OTOH, there are politicians who are trying to pass laws against things that don't exist outside their fevered imaginations all the time these days, so Frothy's scarcely alone in riding the Crazy Train.