Sanity prevails/Insanity prevails

All eight Pennsylvania school board members who voted in favor of the "Intelligent Design" policy currently being challenged in court were voted out of office. Nice to see the voters of Dover realized these people were all IDiots pushing a religious agenda:

In York, testimony from incumbent Alan Bonsell, the board's former president, may have ruined any chance his slate had of pulling through yesterday's election.

In sworn depositions, Mr. Bonsell said he didn't know the source of Dover High School's books promoting intelligent design, but William Buckingham, a former board member, testified that he handed $850 to Mr. Bonsell so his father, Donald Bonsell, could buy the books.

Mr. Buckingham was caught in a blunder. as well. During a deposition he had said he didn't know where the $850 came from but in court he testified his church raised the money.

The only IDiot not voted out of office was the only one not up for re-election. One can only hope that the same fate befalls the IDiot members of the Kansas State Board of Education who voted to implement ID in Kansas science curriculum:

The move by the board's conservative majority surprised no one. Its six conservative members, all Republicans, already had endorsed the new standards.

The moderates were left scrambling to get their opposition on the record.

"Be honest and admit it's a faith issue," said Democrat Janet Waugh, of Kansas City.

The vote was reminiscent of 1999 when the state board adopted science standards that de-emphasized evolution on the state's science assessments. That move, too, brought national criticism.

But elections the following year ousted the state's conservative majority and the science standards eventually were reversed.

"I'm convinced the next stage in this is counting the votes in '06," said Democrat Bill Wagnon, of Topeka.

Not only that, but the IDiots are getting downright Orwellian in their rhetoric:

Waugh, meanwhile, objected to a resolution drafted by board Chairman Steve Abrams, R-Arkansas City, that laid out a list of reasons for the changes -- including that the board found the standards "scientifically valid, educationally appropriate and consistent with the obligation of the state to provide education that is secular, neutral and non-ideological."

As if that's not enough, the board changed the rules in the middle of the game to (presumably) shield themselves from accusations of promoting pseudo-science:

In addition, the board rewrote the definition of science, so that it is no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena.

One can only assume that the Flying Spaghetti Monster will now be afforded equal time in Kansas classrooms.

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