"In 1999, the Kansas board voted to erase any mention of evolution from the state science curriculum, opening the door for the teaching of creationism. That was reversed in 2001, after three board members who supported the move were defeated in a Republican primary. Kathy Martin, a newly elected member of the board who favors teaching alternatives to evolution, said the board would probably take a different route this time, like introducing the teaching of "intelligent design," a theory that holds that the development of the universe and earth was guided at each step by an "intelligent agent."

State Representative Cynthia Davis of Missouri prefiled two bills for the next session of the Legislature that she said "reflect what people want." One would remove the state's requirement that all forms of contraception and their potential health effects be taught in schools, leaving the focus on abstinence. Another would require publishers that sell biology textbooks to Missouri to include at least one chapter with alternative theories to evolution.

"These are common-sense, grass-roots ideas from the people I represent, and I'd be very surprised if a majority of legislators didn't feel they were the right solutions to these problems," Ms. Davis said.
"It's like when the hijackers took over those four planes on Sept. 11 and took people to a place where they didn't want to go," she added. "I think a lot of people feel that liberals have taken our country somewhere we don't want to go. I think a lot more people realize this is our country and we're going to take it back."

From the New York Times.

First of all, I find it absolutely reprehensible that Cynthia Davis would compare the liberal agenda to the agenda of the 9-11 terrorists. Where exactly did the 9-11 hijackers take their victims? Where was it these innocent people "didn't want to go?" They were taken to death in an eruption of flames in an event that should strike us all as so horrifying, so spectacular, and so inspiring of awe that the act of politicizing it with blatant, tasteless, and manipulative language should be immediately repulsive to anyone that watched what unfolded on that particular morning. More than that, Davis frames her speech in a way that implies the liberal agenda is an agenda of death (as it has been called by Bush on more than one occasion) and the logical end of said agenda is a tomb of fire.......imagery not unlike that of Christian hell. Obviously had John Kerry been elected America would be hell-bound! Therefore Bush must be the Jesus President Sitting on the Right Hand of the Lamb feeding on Mannah, Milk, and Honey.

Also, let Missouri remove the teaching of "all forms of contraception" in their schools and lets examine the result. "Tax and spend liberals" my ass. It will be MY tax money and YOURS that pays for the thousands of teenage single parents Missouri is about to create.

And just to demonstrate how totally insane and out of touch with reality the Conservative movement is, they want to stop teaching evolution in schools altogether. Sure, they pay lip service to moderate steps like including "chapters on alternatives to evolution" in textbooks but their goal is clear: To indoctrine your child whilst you cannot monitor what is being placed in his or her mind. And liberals are the ones doing the hijacking.