Jewish group demands apology from Georgia lawmaker

[struggle4progress]

Thursday, February 15, 2007
Story last updated at 6:15 p.m. on Thursday, February 15, 2007

Jewish group demands apology from Georgia lawmaker
By GREG BLUESTEIN
Associated Press Writer

ATLANTA - A Jewish organization is demanding an apology from a Georgia legislator after a memo using his name claims that evolution was a myth propagated by an ancient Jewish sect.

The Anti-Defamation League sent a letter to state Rep. Ben Bridges Thursday chastising him for penning the "highly offensive" memo, which attributes the Big Bang theory to writings in the Kabbalah, a Jewish text.

Bridges has denied writing the dispatch, although one of his closest political allies, Marshall Hall, said the legislator gave him the approval to draft the memo.

The memo asks readers to challenge the "evolution monopoly in the schools" by logging onto Hall's anti-evolution Web site ...

http://www.jacksonville.com/apnews/stories/021507/D8NAEELG0.shtml

The website also attacks Copernicus


08:02 AM CST on Thursday, February 15, 2007
Chisum contrite over memo
Legislature: Group says evolution handout contains anti-Semitic material

By KAREN BROOKS and ROBERT T. GARRETT / The Dallas Morning News

AUSTIN – House Appropriations Chairman Warren Chisum said Wednesday that he's "willing to apologize" for giving colleagues a document that contains what the Anti-Defamation League called "outrageous anti-Semitic material."

"The stuff that causes conflicts between religious beliefs, you know, I'd never be a party to that," Mr. Chisum said. "I'm willing to apologize if I've offended anyone."

Mr. Chisum's comments came after he learned that the Anti-Defamation League, which works against anti-Semitism and other forms of hate, was demanding "a repudiation and apology" in a letter to his office. He said he hadn't seen the letter late Wednesday.

On Tuesday, the Pampa Republican distributed a memo written by Georgia GOP Rep. Ben Bridges to Texas House members' mailboxes. The memo advocated that schools stop teaching evolution and contained links to a Web site that warns of international Jewish conspiracies. It also directed readers to the group that created the Web site – the Atlanta-area Fair Education Foundation ...

http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/local/stories/DN-chisum_15tex.ART.State.Edition1.2063416.html

[saltpoint]

1. Has a George Allen Award for Bigotry in the Public Sector been

established without our knowledge, and if so, does that explain why Virgil Goode, and now this guy, are stepping over themselves trying to win it?

"The evolution monopoly" !?

For godsake.

[JuniperLea]

2. New low in conduct = new highs in hilarity!

This is stunning! I'm absolutely gob-smacked!


:rofl:


These are adults arguing, right?


My God can beat up on your God... neener neener!


:rofl:


So, do I owe it to the Jews that my ancestors crawled out of the primordial ooze? Who do I thank?


:rofl:

[Meshuga]

3. Where does "My God can beat up on your God" fit this picture? n/t

[JuniperLea]

7. My God is smarter... my God is the only true God...

My God can beat up your God...


There's a whole list of them that equally ignorant. I just picked one to denote them all.

[Meshuga]

8. But how does it fit with the stories in the OP?

Who is arguing with who here about one god being better than the other?

[JuniperLea]

10. Oh Good God!

It's an easy connect with the dogma arguments. My dogma is better than yours... that could be added to the list. It's all involved in the stupidity that starts wars. Religious arguments by nature are idiotic.

[Meshuga]

11. I understand that and I also agree

that dogma arguments are stupid but what I am asking is: where is the "my dogma is better than yours" debate in this story?

[JuniperLea]

12. That's what it's all about! It's the crux of the issue!

This idiot has apparently run out of ammunition to shoot at science, so he's going to pick on Judaism and plant a seed in attempt to make people think that this is all something Jews made up to counter Christian beliefs.

He is in essence calling something Jewish in nature and saying it's false, or dogma, whilst spewing his own brand of dogma.

I don't know how to make it any more simple than that. I'm sorry if I'm not making myself clear.




The last bit of the story is a big laugh too...

"Bridges, a Republican lawmaker from north Georgia, has long opposed the teaching of evolution in Georgia classrooms and has introduced legislation requiring only that "scientific fact" be taught in school."

I guess he thinks that creationism is scientific fact. Oh, brother!

[Meshuga]

13. Now you made it

clear enough. Thanks!

"I guess he thinks that creationism is scientific fact. Oh, brother!"

This guy is the perfect example of delusional. :-)

[Meshuga]

4. So, in conclusion, this site (and memo) is trying to...

...prove evolution is a fake by saying it is nothing but a Jewish invention as a conspiracy to destroy christianity. These people are fucking nuts! But it is effective in having their crazy followers hate the Jews while arguing that evolution is nothing but an invention.

[struggle4progress]

5. Apparently the Kabbalah leads to the Big Bang which produces ..

.. Copernicanism which leads to Darwinists and atheism and tooth decay -- or something like that: I'm afraid I didn't study it in full detail.

[Meshuga]

6. And the site is incomplete since they forgot to mention that...

...Jews planted all the fossils of dinosaurs and primitive human ancestors to go with the study of Kabbalah. :-)

[redqueen]

9. Is there a "Sane group"? When will they be demanding an apology?

Geez Louise...