Remarkable.

“Mr. Freshwater, an eighth-grade public school science teacher, is accused of burning a cross onto the arms of at least two students and teaching creationism, charges he says have been fabricated because he refused an order by his principal to remove a Bible from his desk.”

Would a 21st century Scopes-esque trial be helpful? I’m inclined to think it would. Let’s get the beliefs of this increasingly-fringe segment of the populace into the public consciousness, so they know what it is they are tacitly supporting when they sport the title of “religious moderate”.

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