{"id":5,"date":"2006-08-18T17:05:32","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T00:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=5"},"modified":"2008-08-05T10:20:52","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T14:20:52","slug":"et-tu-escambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"Et tu, Escambia?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s an open seat on the Escambia County School Board. Guess what one candidate has in mind <\/a>… <\/span><\/p>\n

Todd Leonard, a school textbook salesman whose desire to instill Christian values in the school system includes adding the teaching of intelligent design to the curriculum.<\/span><\/p>\n

…<\/span><\/p>\n

He supports “intelligent design” being taught in the classroom alongside evolution. He said he does so for the sake of academic freedom rather than religious indoctrination.<\/span><\/p>\n

Leonard said he has a large reform agenda for the school system, and his views on intelligent design and evolution are not the most important parts of that agenda.<\/p>\n

“To suggest that they are front and center would be misleading at best and disingenuous at worst,” he said on his Web site.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read what he has to say about the issue here<\/a> on his site. And then he links to another site<\/a> that says more of the same.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s an open seat on the Escambia County School Board. 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