Reply #16: James Dobson: Chidren are the prize to the winners

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James Dobson:

"Chidren are the prize to the winners in the great second civil war. Those that control what young people are taught and what they experience-what they see, hear, think and believe - will determine the future course of the nation."

Children At Risk: The Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Our Kids, Word Publishing, 1990, p. 35.

I have to ask, if there was a guy walking around your town saying

Chidren are the prize to the winners

Wouldn't you be nervous? Well this has been going on for over 20 years. And if you aren't nervous you ought to be, in fact you ought to be scared. You should be scared for you kids, the kids next door, every damn kid on the planet.


Barbara Forrest, a professor of philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, La., is co-author of the book Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design (Oxford University Press), describes the Wedge Strategy:

The Wedge strategy is the intelligent design movement's tactical plan for promoting intelligent design (ID) creationism as an alternative to evolutionary theory in the American cultural mainstream and public school science classes.


Americans need to know about the darker side of the Wedge strategy, which few people except its supporters have seen. ID is more than just creationism's Trojan horse -- it is a stalking horse for the Religious Right's effort to steamroll its way into American education and public policy. The core of this issue is really about power -- who controls education and thus the minds of children, and who controls the policy that shapes American culture and public life.

Barbara Forrest continues:

The major vehicle for the dissemination of ID is the roughly three dozen books its proponents have published and marketed aggressively. The Wedge strategy called for publication of 30 books by 2003,

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