Has the Schiavo case Become a Political Football?

On a related note, Kansas voted overwhelmingly yesterday to amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage and civil unions. The amendment was approved by more than a 2-1 ratio .... Kansas is the 18th state to ban gay marriage by constitutional amendment.

Fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy and needs feeding.

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On a related note, Kansas voted overwhelmingly yesterday to amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage and civil unions. The amendment was approved by more than a 2-1 ratio .... Kansas is the 18th state to ban gay marriage by constitutional amendment.

Yes, and it's significant that it's Kansas, isn't it? We're back to the Monkey trial again.

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Fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy and needs feeding.

Apparently, we missed those posts from you each morning where you share your paper's headline with us.

So, care to elucidate what you think the significance is? It was your post, not Lola's.

blatham wrote:

So, care to elucidate what you think the significance is? It was your post, not Lola's.

She said it was significant, not I.

Ticomaya wrote:

blatham wrote:

So, care to elucidate what you think the significance is? It was your post, not Lola's.

She said it was significant, not I.

So are you admitting that what you're posting is totally insignificant?

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On a related note, Kansas voted overwhelmingly yesterday to amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage and civil unions. The amendment was approved by more than a 2-1 ratio .... Kansas is the 18th state to ban gay marriage by constitutional amendment.

Yes, and it's significant that it's Kansas, isn't it? We're back to the Monkey trial again.
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http://archives.cnn.com/2000/LAW/07/13/scopes.monkey.trial/

http://www.ljworld.com/section/evolution/story/197066

What, Tico, you've never heard of the Monkey trials of the 1920's? Or is it that you need a little help in understanding what IS significant on this thread?

Well, I thought I was by pointing out those trials. But now...?



Oooboy...

How is it an assault on the judiciary?
What congress did was perfectly legal and within their powers to do.

If you don't know the significance, just say so. If you do know the significance, just say so. But please don't feign superiority ... it doesn't suit you.

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If you don't know the significance, just say so. If you do know the significance, just say so. But please don't feign superiority ... it doesn't suit you.

And you're not?

Can't you understand? If you take a law like evolution and you make it a crime to teach it in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools? And tomorrow you may make it a crime to read about it. And soon you may ban books and newspapers. And then you may turn Catholic against Protestant, and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the mind of man. If you can do one, you can do the other. Because fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding. And soon, your Honor, with banners flying and with drums beating we'll be marching backward, BACKWARD, through the glorious ages of that Sixteenth Century when bigots burned the man who dared to bring enlightenment and intelligence to the human mind!

That the play has thrived for decades suggests a usefulness far deeper than merely a characteristic look at America in the 1920s. In fact, further analysis reveals that aside from endless community theatre shows, the large-scale productions of Inherit over the past 40 years coincide with periods of crisis in American culture and a heightened debate over creationism versus evolution. To scholars, such as John Crowe Ransom and James Hunter, this issue is not an isolated one. Instead, both Ransom and Hunter believe that the proceedings of the Scopes trial and the subsequent dramatizations mirror a continuous cultural conflict between different belief systems. Although Hunter labels the two camps progressive and orthodox and Ransom refers to the modernists and fundamentalists, both base their definitions on where people look for meaning in an increasingly complex world. The story of Inherit the Wind, can be read, therefore, as far more than twelve sweltering days in history; it is, instead, the narrative of a nation and the continual struggle for control and the license to write the past of a people.

Tennessee, Kansas,...

What's the difference?