A native son of Texas on the teaching of creationism in public schools

There has been much talk since the election of Obama of the fear of imposition of "sharia law" in America as if the President were intent upon its establishment as a national religion. 

The irony here is that there is a group working in concert to establish, or more correctly, impose a rigid moral and ethical code in America and it is the Christian Fundamentalists. I do not doubt their fervent faith, nor deny them their right to believe as they choose, but when their actions bleed into the social/political arena, stand the constitution on its ear and violate it, yes violate constitutional law, by teaching hokum (creationism) with established scientific theory (and please look up the use of theory in the scientific sense) then we are treading the same path that led to the demise of a vital and scientific culture decades ago, namely the Persian empire that was driven back into ignorance and poverty by the rule of the religious intolerant.

 The irony is palpable and the threat is already playing itself out in school boards across the nation and congressmen on scientific committees who publicly declare scientific theory to come from the depths of hell. Not all Conservatives think like this but their silence is telling and they have made a political calculation to embrace ignorance to achieve a political end. But should it come to pass, it will be a pyrrhic victory, as history has shown us, to well, the consequence of such silence. But these days, we are more interested in rewriting history than studying it. This country was founded on the idea of freedom from the establishment of a single religion, "the government shall not establish" but leave all the freedom to worship as they please. Is it not strange that those who proclaim to stand up for America, truly know so little about its founding principles.