Texas rocks! ?Good news:
Veteran State Board of Education member Pat Hardy of Fort Worth was defeating a challenger in the GOP primary Tuesday night, holding off an effort by social conservatives to gain a working majority on the politically divided board.
That challenger, urologist Barney Maddox outspent Hardy by $60K to $4K - a 15:1 margin - in his race to lose. Maddox was the candidate who wouldn't speak with the media or appear at any candidate forums, but had left ample evidence of his creationist activities online.
But according to the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, it isn't over:
Maddox's entry in the race had set the stage for debate over the scientific theory of evolution, which he has described as "fairy tales." Hardy took a better course: Teach kids about all theories, she said, from creation to evolution, and give them enough information to make up their own minds about what to believe.
Hardy's statement is troubling, and I hadn't read of that stance being attributed to her anywhere before this article.
And
. . . incumbent Mary Helen Berlanga, D-Corpus Christi, easily defeated a challenger in the Democratic primary who also supported creation science as a better explanation of the origin of man than Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
Of course, the big press in Texas last night was focused on the Democratic presidential results. A big THANK YOU to those sensible Texas Republicans who recognized that their state school board needed more attention than Obama or Clinton.
posted by Cheryl Shepherd-Adams
