Reply #108: Well, here you go.

[GaYellowDawg]

Maybe if you took a little time to do something a simple search, you could see the man's ulterior motives:

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared in the June 3, 2003 edition of the Mount Vernon News

MOUNT VERNON — The Mount Vernon Board of Education turned down a proposal on the teaching of evolution at its board meeting Monday at the Mount Vernon Middle School library.

An objective origins science policy proposed by Mount Vernon Middle School science teacher John Freshwater had been turned down at a previous meeting, but the issue had found new life with a proposal by board member Dr. Margie Bennett. Bennett’s proposal was that if both micro- and macro-evolutionary theory continue to be taught, then both the evidence accepted by a majority of scientists and controversy proposed by other scientists should be included in class discussion.

“This allows the objective examination of science. It supports discussion of the critical evolution of science,” Bennett said. “All of us recognize the controversy. The National Association recognizes the controversy. We encourage students to question things. Science is ever-changing ideas. As evolution is challenged, what’s wrong with questioning it?”

“It’s important to me that children not only learn, but examine, question what they learn,” said Martha Farmer, who supported Bennett’s proposal. “They should study science as it’s taught, but it should not be limited to that. Allowing a child to think and question gives them a better understanding of what they’ve learned.”

In other words, this guy, along with the board member, has already publicly pushed to teach a "controversy" where none exists. It's the old wedge strategy of creationists, and your boy John Freshwater is one of them. He IS trying to teach his religion, and has been trying for years.

Game, set, fucking MATCH.