Following up on my post about Clint McCance earlier this week, I just wanted to express my relief at hearing the news lady night that he will be resigning his job as a school board member. So that's one asshole/idiot down, how many are left? People like him and countless others should never be allowed to be in a position of power where they may negatively influence the country's youth.

Bigotry has a new face

It seems that bigotry and anti-gay sentiments has a new poster boy: Clint McCance of the Arkansas School Board. After last week's refreshing and proud display of purple on Spirit Day, McCance posted on facebook some of the most hateful remarks I've seen in recent years in which he stated that he "enjoys the fact that they often give each other aids and die." In addition to this he made remarks about how spirit day was essentially a day honouring the sin that, he claims, lead to the recent suicides of gay teens around the country and that he believes they should all commit suicide.
Such behaviour should not be allowed or tolerated in a person who has the power to influence the youth of the country and thus spread his own brand of bigotry. this morning I signed the petition calling for his resignation and I urge everyone to do the same.
Though I whole heartedly support freedom of speech and believe that everyone should be allowed to express their opinion, I believe my grandmother said it best "if you have nothing nice to say, didn't say anything at all." And if your being a bigoted, prickish, asshole, I say you've got no one to blame but yourself when you get what you deserve! I support the comments stating that he deserves a good old fashioned southern beatdown that many people have posted on the HRC website. As a northerner, and more to the point, a New Yorker, I've got my own brand of justice.
Finally I pose a question: why does it matter who you love or sleep with so long as you are safe and responsible? You should be proud of who you love since there seems to be such a shortage of love out there.

Of all the things that truly irk me and have the potential to bring it the very worst of my attitude, ignorance, ignorant "creationists" in this case, ranks up there with homophobes, racists, and people who hurt animals. Before anyone jumps down my throat calling me a heathen or that I'm going to burn in hell, I'd like to point out that I am a person of faith who was raised around the church. Currently, I'm working on a project meant to explain evolution to children. In my research for this I find myself coming across numerous websites about young earth and old earth creationism claiming they can provide evidence that they are direct and that Darwinism is false. What bothers me most is that most of the writers of the articles posted on these sites that are supposedly giving this groundbreaking evidence for whichever branch of creationism they believe in are supposedly scientists who attribute the entire theory of evolution to Darwin and label everything having to do with human evolution to Darwin without mentioning other contributors to the theory. This being said, the very basis of their argument is flawed. What is also disturbing is that someone who is allegedly a scientist, often titled as a biologist of some sort does not know something taught in a first year biology course. This then leads to another interesting question: why would someone who so fervently believes that everything first appeared exactly as it does now without change, go into a field in which this change, rather obvious changes in many cases, is embraced and studied?
In researching how I might explain to children evolution and evolutionary processes, I began to wonder how I might explain why creationism simply does not work the way creationists say it does. While the reasons are numerous and it would take much longer to explain than any child would be interested, I still find it necessary to explain that recent archaeological finds disprove the notion of young earth creationism (which places the earth's age as about 6000 years old) with ease as well as the notion of old earth creationism (which places the earth's age around 10000 years). I would delight in hearing what their arguments for the finding of a 5000 year old door is and how to explain the recently found jewellery being attributed to neanderthals is. In response to the expected response of "God put it there to test non believers" I offer the question of "why?" Why would an omnipotent being go through all the trouble to falsify evidence simply to test a group of people? I would also care to point out that it seems Christianity is the only religion that simply cannot accept evolution.

An introduction

talk to anyone who knows me and you'll probably get a bunch of different responses. I'm a basket of contradictions. I pretty much dislike everyone and yet I'm a proud supporter of the Human Rights Campaign and NoH8, volunteer at the World Science Festival and generally like animals better than people. I believe in God but am firmly against the ideas being called creationism and a literal reading of the bible with a firm belief that creationism should more be taught in classrooms. Ask me and I'll tell you I'm a hybrid with a love/hate relationship with the world/nature. I'm against fossil fuels and non-renewable energy sources and for photovoltaic and hydroelectric power but I have a strong, and sometimes disturbing, love of gas guzzling muscle cars. I love dressing in pretty gowns and getting dolled up but am quick to be told by my chinese-when-she-wants-to-be mother that I'm not girly enough.
I : am quick to anger and have no patience for ignorance and stupidity; enjoy a drink or two while watching tv or gaming;
have a fighty attitude; am opinionated.
I am who your conservative parents warned you about.