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    • Evolution Opponents Lose in Kansas Primary

      Posted by Billbar from Forbes

      Conservative Republicans who approved new classroom standards that call evolution into question lost control of the State Board of Education in Tuesday's primary election. A victory by pro-evolution Republican candidate Jana Shaver over conservative Republican Brad Patzer, who supported the standards treating evolution as a flawed theory, meant conservatives would at best have five of 10 seats on the board.

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    • Rainbow flag creates controversy

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      J. R. and Robin Knight own a bed and breakfast in Meade, Kansas. He hung a rainbow flag up outside that his son had given him after a trip to Dorothy's house, a museum about the Wizard of Oz. The locals think, without asking, that it stands for gay pride. The local newspaper is trying to put him out of business and he was frustrated when it ran an article about the flag and did not even bother to contact him regarding why he put it up. A local pastor who stopped by said it was equivalent to hanging women’s panties on a flag pole. When Knight jokingly said he might consider that – the preacher said he would have him arrested.

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      Evolution's Backers in Kansas Start Counterattack

      Posted by Billbar from New York Times

      Less than a year after a conservative Republican majority on the State Board of Education adopted rules for teaching science containing one of the broadest challenges in the nation to Darwin’s theory of evolution, moderate Republicans and Democrats are mounting a fierce counterattack. They want to retake power and switch the standards back to what they call conventional science. Several moderate Republican candidates have vowed, if they lose Tuesday, to support the Democratic primary winners in November.

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    • Candidates in Kansas explain why they switched

      Posted by Billbar from Kansascity

      Whether the state is seeing the beginning of a trend that features a more robust Democratic Party and a Kansas GOP shorn of its moderate base remains to be seen. In other words, some of the new Democrats have to win in November if the party jumping is to continue.

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    • Trial Opens in Challenge to Law Over Teenage Sex

      Posted by Billbar from New York Times

      Kansas is one of 12 states where sex under a certain age — 16, 17 or 18 — is illegal regardless of the age difference between partners. The Kansas law means health care professionals and educators must report such behavior to state authorities, which some say would stop many teenagers from seeking contraception or treatment for sexually transmitted diseases.

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    Also, be sure to read this: "Whether watching television news, consulting political blogs or (more rarely) reading books, Americans today have become a people in search of validation for opinions that they already hold," Susan Jacoby, the author of ‘The Age of American Unreason,’ writes on the op-ed page of The Los Angeles Times. "This absence of curiosity about other points of view is the essence of anti-intellectualism and represents a major departure from the nation’s best cultural traditions."

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