Repug Freakazoid Senator Claims He Won't Push Creationism

Everybody who believes this, stand on your head.


Tom Loftus at the Courier:

The new chairman of the Senate Education Committee said Wednesday he has no intention of using his new role to help push his personal belief in creationism into the curriculum of public schools.

“I have no plans for doing anything like that or focusing on that,” Sen. Mike Wilson said in a phone interview. “We already have a lot of things that we are working on in education ... more than enough to keep us busy.”

Wilson, a Bowling Green Republican, is in his second year in the Senate and for 15 years he has been general manager of WCVK Christian Family Radio. Last week the new Senate Republican leadership team appointed him chairman of the Education Committee, succeeding retiring Sen. Ken Winters, R-Murray.



During a discussion about student testing last August before the Interim Joint Education Committee, Wilson and other Republican lawmakers encouraged the teaching of the biblical account of creationism along with biological evolution.

“My concern is that our students are indoctrinated into one way of thinking without allowing them to have intellectual freedom,” Wilson said at the meeting. “And that really bothers me.”

Well of course he won't push "creationism:" that's actually unconstitutional. He'll push "intelligent design" or "teach the controversy." But you can bet your ass he won't let an entire General Assembly session go by without forcing Bronze-Age mythology on Kentucky's defenseless schoolchildren somehow.

These motherfuckers never stop.

And yes, this is the same Wilson that Sen. Kathy Stein called a "narrow-minded nimrod." We'll know soon how right she was.