Rubio: Evolution battle "will go on"

From our sister blog, The Gradebook:

So maybe it's not over. House Speaker Marco Rubio, R-Miami, who is often described as a likely future governor, told the Florida Baptist Witness in this story yesterday that the evolution battle "will go on for quite some time" and that the House "may have sufficient votes" to act on an academic freedom proposal being pushed by religious conservatives.

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This is just crap. I'm a Republican and it's wrong that we are trying to pretend a bunch of religious hokum is a legitimate scientific alternative to Darwinism. China and India are poised to kick our economic butts and we're still trying to use schools as a substitute for churches. Why are we being dragged back into the Dark Ages by these pandering idiots?

Uh, doesn't the Legislature have better things to do than fight the battle of creationsim? I thought you have low-hanging pants and $1 strip club excise taxes to worry about?

[Crusader]

Well, well well. Marco Rubio finds religion. Praise the Lord.

On the other hand, it's not implausible that Rubio is descended from toads or weasels, or maybe a lap dog.

The only way that rubio has the votes for "academic freedom" is because he refuses to give his caucus any "legislative freedom." See Ross, Brown and Gardiner. Small government--ha! We'll force you to pray in school! We'll force you to teach creationism! Small government for small minds. Small government for big business.

[crcg]

And the earth is flat cause the crazies said so.

12:15 beat me to it.

In truth, the sun rotates around the earth.

"Rubio's comments follow Tuesday's vote by the Board of Education"

Usually an effective leader is out in front of a battle long before a vote. (pro-active not reactive)

Strong words after a vote are not that effective.

Same with the Gambling expansion and vote last year;

Same with him picking the wrong (longshot) candidate to rally behind in the Presidential primary.

Many missed opportunities to lead that were there for him.

This is a natural offshoot of his belief that he's "God's gift to Government".

Didn't I see him on the corner of LeJune holding a sign "Will Pray for Air Time?" I guess someone took him up on it.

Tough enough for Florida to get high-tech business here now because of the lack of schools and workforce. Add this mess on to it, and Florida will be an economic laughingstock, not an educational one.

it is appropriate to debate evolution on groups of supporting and refuting scientificevidence...

it is NOT however, appropriate to present intelligent design as one of the alternative explanations ina science class.

BIG DIFFERENCE FOLKS

Trying so hard to take pandering to a new level...

[Buzzard]

Blame the dumbasses that decided to dogmatize evolution. They're the ones that picked the fight, stuck their thumb in the religious conservatives' collective eye. Everything was fine up until that point.

The vultures are gathering. The end of the Rubio story is near.

[Jason Straight]

We live in a state of Idiocracy.Our Gov is a gay blade,and Dinasaurs and cavemen were buddies..

I'm guessing that picture is 7 years old. Marco doesn't look that young anymore.

[The Sheep]

Johnnie B. Rubio

[Gene Smith]

Rubio has really missed the boat. The conservative ship has sailed and it will be a long time before it gets to ride roughshod over this state again.

Marco Rubio will NEVER be Governor of Florida.

Gene,
I can't say that I agree with most of your posts. I certainly don't agree with all of this one, and while I have learned not to say never, (especially in regards to politics), I would not like to see Rubio as Governor. He has been a huge disappointment as Speaker.

Rubio is gaming the system to appear as the most conservative of the conservative.

It is an interetsting strategy whereby he goes to the far right extreme knowing it won't carry the day especially in light of the fact that his proxies, surrogates and friends are pushing counter agendas.

It makes for a guy that can say I went this way and the rest of you less than conservative folks went the other way but I will abide by what the masses want.

He is hoping that this works for him. What is going to end up happening is that as the masses get more educated they will become more moderate.

Remember, most folks don't want to have religious services with rattle snakes to prove that they are G*d fearing people.

Can I get an Amen?

Amen.
And what many don't want to admit is that they are becoming more moderate sooner, rather than later.