The Talibantastic Xianist Theocracy of Kentucky

There is no end to the illegality, no bottom to the stupidity, no limit to the hypocrisy and deceit.

In a school system that teaches teenagers that condoms cause AIDS and bars science teachers from even mentioning evolution, our only legislature has decided that the most critical educational need in Kentucky is a fable imagined by a bunch of Bronze Age desert nomads.

Jake nails it:

What the hell is wrong with Kentucky these days?

What’s in the water?

Check out SB 142:

AN ACT relating to Bible literacy courses in the public schools.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to establish an elective social studies course on the Hebrew Scriptures, Old Testament of the Bible, the New Testament, or a combination of the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament of the Bible; require that the course provide students knowledge of biblical content, characters, poetry, and narratives that are prerequisites to understanding contemporary society and culture, including literature, art, music, mores, oratory, and public policy; permit students to use various translations of the Bible for the course; amend KRS 158.197 to permit a school council to offer an elective social studies course on the Hebrew Scriptures, Old Testament of the Bible, the New Testament, or a combination of the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament of the Bible.

Introduced in the State Senate late Friday by David Boswell, Julian Carroll and Ed Worley.

When you dig in? Check this:

(2) The purpose of a course under this section is to:

(a) Teach students knowledge of biblical content, characters, poetry, and narratives that are prerequisites to understanding contemporary society and culture, including literature, art, music, mores, oratory, and public policy;

They’ve added language to say all laws will be followed. But if that’s the case, they need to legislate classes from the Koran and other religious texts right away.

What a waste of time and money.

I'll just add that David Boswell is the freakazoid wingnut DINO loser who handed the open Second District Congressional seat to repug Brent Guthrie in 2008, during the biggest Democratic landslide in 64 years.