Disgusting

A former St. Petersburg city council member brings Godwin’s Law into the real world as reported in this St. Petersburg Times story.

Darwin’s theory of evolution helped fuel the rise of Hitler and contributed to the school-shooting massacre at Columbine, a former St. Petersburg City Council member wrote in a letter urging the Pinellas County School Board to expose students to alternative theories.

This item was on The Gradebook blog yesterday, but I wasn’t excited about the blurb, because, well, who cares what this nut thinks. But then in today’s story it’s mentioned that:

Foster, who recently stepped down after being term-limited from office, is widely considered to be a leading contender to be St. Petersburg’s next mayor in 2009.

I sincerely hope that the attention Foster gets out of this is all negative and brings this lunatic down.