Oklahoma: the legislative suckage continues

[the_archfiend]

Is there any way we can just eject Oklahoma into space after all the smart people are rescued?

All eight of them?

None of them seem to be state legislators, either. First, there was the idiocy of Oklahoma HR 2211, which seems designed (no pun intended) to give creationists a sense of legal entitlement so that they can go on ignoring the fact that they know nothing about science or theology. And now, it's the equally jolly HR 1595, an abortion reporting law that has the potential for all sorts of unintended consequences for women who've undergone the procedure.

(NOTE: It's been pointed out to me that a poll concerning OK high school students and their capacity to know who the first US president was might not be particularly reliable, so the citation goes away. Still, it's a state that saw fit to re-elect James Inhofe as a Senator, so my comment on their relative lack of a collective intellect still stands.)

Comments

[pyropyga.livejournal.com]

I think you need to read this before citing that poll.

[unhipster.livejournal.com]

". First, there was the idiocy of Oklahoma HR 2211, which seems designed (no pun intended) to give creationists a sense of legal entitlement so that they can go on ignoring the fact that they know nothing about science or theology."
I wish that law existed when I was in school! I could answer whatever I wanted on a test, and they'd have to give me a good grade because I could just say it was my personal religious belief that the answer to a math problem was "yellow."

[the-archfiend.livejournal.com]

pyropyga wrote:

>I think you need to read this before citing that poll.

I haven't gone all the way through it, but yeah, it looks fishy. Thanks. The post has been edited accordingly.

[the-archfiend.livejournal.com]

unhipster wrore:

"I wish that law existed when I was in school! I could answer whatever I wanted on a test, and they'd have to give me a good grade because I could just say it was my personal religious belief that the answer to a math problem was 'yellow.'"

I get the sinking feeling that one of the reasons that people pass laws like this is that they *don't* want their kids to end up being smarter than they are. That's in addition to the equally stomach-churning possibility that they don't want their kids to even have a thought about questioning what Parson Brown said about the world only being 10,000 years old last Sunday, so let's just be fair and say that it's a law that appeals to The Stupid across the board for *all* reasons.