{"id":6,"date":"2006-08-14T17:21:35","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T00:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=6"},"modified":"2008-08-04T19:48:50","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T23:48:50","slug":"citrus-county-school-board-elections-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"Citrus County school board elections forum"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the first of the election year’s large public candidate forums, residents got to hear from candidates<\/a> who will appear on the ballot Sept. 5, including School Board and County Commission hopefuls …<\/p>\n

District 1 candidate Michael “Joey” White said Citrus schools should be allowed to teach intelligent design as an alternative to the theory of evolution.<\/p>\n

“There’s certainly room for both of them at the schools,” White said to scattered applause from the crowd.<\/p>\n

Incumbent Lou Miele responded that intelligent design should not be taught in Citrus public schools. The school district recently adopted a new science textbook for the secondary schools.<\/p>\n

“As much as I believe in my faith,” he said, “there’s no place for that in school.”<\/p>\n

Schools “need to teach facts to our children,” he said. “Our parents and churches can teach religion. It’s that simple.”<\/p>\n

The third candidate, Paul Earnheart, said he also is a religious man but thinks teaching intelligent design in public schools would violate the separation of church and state.<\/p>\n

Miele has been criticized for seeking a seat on the School Board even though his two children attend private Catholic school. White’s daughter is a kindergartener at a public school in Citrus. Earnheart has two sons enrolled in Citrus schools.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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