{"id":1194,"date":"2010-06-14T09:54:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T13:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2010-06-14T09:54:21","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T13:54:21","slug":"school-board-candidate-evolution-is-junk-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1194","title":{"rendered":"School Board candidate: evolution is “junk science”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The St. Petersburg Times education blog The Gradebook has a post up <\/a>about a candidate for the Pinellas County school board. Judith Bruinius believes that schools are falling apart due to “”rampant immorality among the teachers and the students.” Her solutions\u00c2\u00a0are to post the Ten Commandments in classrooms and eliminate the teaching of evolution.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got children raping other children. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got children killing other children,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153To me, the whole system has lost its moral compass and this is why we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re having this much trouble.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

She said she is a creationist and objects to the teaching of evolution as more than a theory. “This is a way of indoctrinating our children into really a humanistic religion,” she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She was apparently recruited by her local Tea Party to run. Are there any of you folks out there in Pinellas who can give us insight into what her chances are?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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