Bush's "Faith-Based Parks" agenda . . .

[OneBlueSky]

PARK SERVICE STICKS WITH BIBLICAL EXPLANATION FOR GRAND CANYON
Promised Legal Review on Creationist Book Is Shelved

http://www.peer.org/press/524.html

Washington, DC — The Bush Administration has decided that it will stand by its approval for a book claiming the Grand Canyon was created by Noah’s flood rather than by geologic forces, according to internal documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).

Despite telling members of Congress and the public that the legality and appropriateness of the National Park Service offering a creationist book for sale at Grand Canyon museums and bookstores was “under review at the national level by several offices,” no such review took place, according to materials obtained by PEER under the Freedom of Information Act.

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The creationist book is not the only religious controversy at Grand Canyon National Park. One week prior to the approved sale of Grand Canyon: A Different View, NPS Deputy Director Donald Murphy ordered that bronze plaques bearing Psalm verses be returned and reinstalled at canyon overlooks. Superintendent Alston had removed the bronze plaques on legal advice from Interior Department solicitors. Murphy also wrote a letter of apology to the plaques’ sponsors, the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary. PEER has collected other instances of what it calls the Bush Administration’s “Faith-Based Parks” agenda.

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http://www.peer.org/press/524.html

[shoelace414]

1. the election is over.

[purduejake]

2. Good thing they were removed...

or else I would have done it myself when I go there this summer and probably would have spent a little time in jail.

[BlueEyedSon]

3. It's like a running joke, a bad one.

[Union Thug]

4. And for next year's 9th grade science text, we learn that the DEVIL..

planted all those dinosaur fossils as a clever ruse...

The stupidity of these people never ceases to amaze me.

[gnofg]

5. laughing stock

We are the laughing stock of the world. We used to lead the world in scientific discovery. If this group continues we will be like Afghanistan