"My life's experiences are in play in every decision I make"

[proud2BlibKansan]

Unnatural Selection
The strange redemption of Connie Morris, high school slut turned Kansas State Board of Education anti-evolutionist.
By Justin Kendall

By this summer, Connie Morris had made a name for herself on this side of Kansas.

A member of the Kansas State Board of Education, the conservative Republican from St. Francis -- a town with 1,497 residents in the far northwestern corner of the state, just 20 miles east of the Colorado line -- had publicly written off the theory of evolution in her newsletter as an "age-old fairytale." Newspaper readers here knew her as the main antagonist of Shawnee's Sue Gamble, one of four self-described moderate or liberal state school-board members whose voices of reason were trounced by anti-evolutionary forces and their farcical "trial" involving intelligent design -- which posits a natural world too complex to exist without the influence of a higher power -- this past May in Topeka.

With anti-evolution standards all but guaranteed to be written into the Kansas school curriculum, Morris and other conservative board members will try this fall, her newsletter promises, to "reclaim" sex education. The conservative majority has plans to alter a small but important section of the schools' health standards, adding an "opt-in" provision that would require parents to sign a permission slip before their children would be taught sex ed. (Parents can already opt their children out of such classes.) Morris outlined her stance in a June newsletter to her constituents, calling for "more decorum" in health classes. "Anatomy and physiology used to be part of a rigorous health curriculum, but has long been discarded for a more sex education type of teaching," she wrote.

Morris criticizes society for reveling "too long in the free-sex revolution." And she's well aware that some will call her views prudish.

If she wanted to, though, Morris could teach her own class on free sex.

She has already written the textbook.

Her 208-page tell-all autobiography, From the Darkness: One Woman's Rise to Nobility (available on Amazon.com for as little as $3.09), reveals that she wasn't always so conservative. Before she was Connie Morris, enemy of evolution, she was Connie Littleton, black-haired siren.

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http://www.pitch.com/Issues/2005-08-18/news/feature_1.html

This is a must read for all of us who want to see this bitch OFF of the state board of ed.

[kweerwolf]

1. Fascinating article (and humorously ironic in places!)

Reaeding about Connie's sordid past, it reminds me of what my grandmother once said about the "born-agains" who showed up at here door periodically to inquire if she'd been saved: "Some people just love to feel superior to their pasts."

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Your grandmother sounds like a wise woman

That is a cool saying.

[Mabus]

2. but she's a hoot on church ski trips

one of my favorite passages from The Pitch article

In St. Francis, Connie and Kelly became youth-group counselors for the Assembly of God Church. When they chaperoned a Colorado ski trip for 11 teenagers, Connie felt compelled to share her story of molestation with the kids.

"I chose to expose and give away a precious part of my soul as I haltingly shared with them how 'my wakeup call was his finger in my vagina,'" she writes. "They weren't shocked, they hear that kind of language every day. I explained that I wanted desperately to protect them from the same scars and memories that try to plague my life. They could see my heart as I begged them to preserve themselves till marriage."


It was probably better entertainment that must MTV videos.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. That is a funny part

Like talking about a finger in her vagina would DIScourage the kids from experimenting with their own fingers and vaginas??

[Mabus]

3. Has anyone posted this crap on the Kentucky board?

It would be great if someone over there recognized her when she was slutting for drugs instead of religious zealotry.

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. Why what an excellent idea.

Kentucky here I come.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. Done

Let's watch this thread for responses.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=154x716

[Mabus]

10. Great

I stuck my nose in but I'll stay away for a while.

[ComerPerro]

11. Mabus, great phrasing

[Mabus]

12. Sometimes I calls 'em likes I sees 'em -eom

[Zenlitened]

8. Oh, how typical. Made a mess of her own life, and is now on a mission....

... to mess with the lives of everyone else.

Typical born-again bullshit.

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. Born again bullshit LOL

:rofl:

[atommom]

13. ....which explains why every decision she makes is ludicrous and

insane! So many fundies seem to have unsavory backgrounds like this. My own explanation: they were mentally ill then, and they're mentally ill now. And they don't deserve the attention and respect they get from their naive religious followers.

[Mabus]

14. Mental illness coupled with drug abuse

Don't forget about her former drug and alcohol abuse. I don't recall seeing anything in The Pitch article about her getting bona fide treatment for her drug and alcohol abuse. In my experience there are very few people who can go cold turkey after years of abuse and come out of it okay. People with addictive personalities need to learn to cope with their propensity for addiction. They often have chemical imbalances that can impair them emotionally and mentally for the rest of their lives if they don't get treatment. Then there's all those dead brain cells, years of impaired logic/thinking and a personality/character that is geared towards scoring the next fix, whether it is a bottle of booze, a shot of heroin or publicity.

Add in a preexisting mental illness with the substance abuse and you've got a complete mental mess. Look at *, he didn't get treatment and he can't think right either.

[bperci108]

16. You hit the nail on the head...

...and didn't realize it.

"...scoring the next fix, whether it is a bottle of booze, a shot of heroin or publicity."

Or the next "religious experience", perhaps?

I think Connie traded one addiction for another: chemicals for religion. Almost every single pushy, overbearing, born-again zealot or crusader that I have personally known or known about has a past history mired in addiction of one sort or another.

Now that they are "saved" they seek to be the pusher for the rest of the world.

But every normal, sane, "real" (for lack of a better term) Christian I have known doesn't seem to have this personality trait.

I remember something in the Good Book about worrying about a mote in another's eye and ignoring the beam in your own.....hmmmmm.

[scratchtasia]

15. See this thread, too

Here's an earlier thread about the same article:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=153x2409