Rightwing nut job has "An Inconvenient Truth." banned from schools

[gatorboy]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/299253_inconvenient11.html

This week in Federal Way schools, it got a lot more inconvenient to show one of the top-grossing documentaries in U.S. history, the global-warming alert "An Inconvenient Truth."

After a parent who supports the teaching of creationism and opposes sex education complained about the film, the Federal Way School Board on Tuesday placed what it labeled a moratorium on showing the film. The movie consists largely of a PowerPoint presentation by former Vice President Al Gore recounting scientists' findings.  
  Paramount Classics
  Al Gore's documentary about global warming may not be shown unless the teacher also presents an "opposing view."

"Condoms don't belong in school, and neither does Al Gore. He's not a schoolteacher," said Frosty Hardison, a parent of seven who also said that he believes the Earth is 14,000 years old. "The information that's being presented is a very cockeyed view of what the truth is. ... The Bible says that in the end times everything will burn up, but that perspective isn't in the DVD."

Hardison's e-mail to the School Board prompted board member David Larson to propose the moratorium Tuesday night.

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See folks? All it takes is a single email from one nutjob to change school policy that affects hundreds. :crazy:

The school system should just do the noble thing and just rid itself of the heathen science dept.

[northzax]

1. sounds good

as soon as someone creates a documentary on DVD that factually debunks climate change, they should show it.

I am not holding my breath.

[BOSSHOG]

8. Lets make sure we show that DVD

disputing factual data beyond a reasonable doubt. Its downright cruel how people like "frosty" get persecuted for his religious beliefs.

[northzax]

13. yep, just as soon as they make one up

i'll be first in line.

[Atman]

2. Yeah, but what about what L Ron Hubbard says...and...and...

...and...my head is going to explode.

.

[EC]

and what about the other parents? ..

they don't count?

[dogday]

As opposed to allowing that fake 9-11 movie

to be distributed through schools across the country...

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. Here's hoping...

the good people of Federal Way remove this David Larson nut ASAP.

He's got no business in the education business.

[screembloodymurder]

4. I blame the school.

What will they do when someone complains about teaching science. After all, it's just a bunch of theories.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. I blame the school board.

And this parent.

And the people who voted for the school board.

"What will they do when someone complains about teaching science."

Um, we just found out.

[Supersedeas]

18. yea, that's scary

[Greg Helmsley]

29. Another example of...

Whose the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows it?!?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

5. "in the end times everything will burn up" - I never heard that one

Is that actually in the Bible? Global warming now is welcomed by the Kook Fringe as a sign of the apocalypse, along with approaching world-wide war and death?

[BOSSHOG]

6. An ole frosty is here to testify

by god, I fuck my wife and I don't need no damn liberal condom. By god Iffin I want my woman pregnant then by god that's how it'll be and we don't need no damn librul trash in our schools cause there's enough conservative trash. All ya got to do is read the bible and tithe; that's what the preacher says. Damn some of my youngins look like him.

[Riddler]

7. The parent's name is Frosty??? No wonder he doesn't want to hear about global warming!

[lazyriver]

14. BwwaHaaHaaHaaHaaHaa!!!!!! nt

[tridim]

10. We should demand all fundy churches offer an opposing view.

You think they'll go for that?

[Ezlivin]

11. "The Bible says..."

And that, my friends, is the crux of the problem. The Bible doesn't say one damned thing; people simply read their views into whatever they read.

About 150 years ago Baptists in the south split from the Baptists to form the Southern Baptists. Why? Because the "Bible says" that slavery is perfectly fine. "The Southern Baptist Convention of 1995 voted June 20 to adopt a resolution renouncing its racist roots and apologizing for its past defense of slavery. The racism resolution marked the denomination's first formal acknowledgment that racism played a role in its founding."

Maybe 150 years from now these "believers" will issue another apology regarding global warming. Naturally they won't be doing it from any current coastal cities.

[Mythsaje]

12. Not HUNDREDS...thousands...

Federal Way is a small city with more than one high school.

How is it that ANYONE thinks it's okay to oppose science with unprovable religious belief?

And people wonder why I regularly call revealed, organized religion a "scam."

[LisaM]

15. I'm surprised Frosty even has his quiverfull in public schools at all

I still haven't put together how he's connecting condoms to global warming, though he clearly doesn't know what condoms are actually for......

[tanyev]

16. The men who wrote the books of the Bible weren't school teachers, either.

Creationism is a very cockeyed view of what the truth is.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

17. Since when does the Bible

dictate public school classroom instruction? :shrug:

[Initech]

19. Honestly, I would have ignored the guy after this blatantly flawed logic:

"Condoms don't belong in school, and neither does Al Gore. He's not a schoolteacher,"

Um yeah. Maybe you could show us some credentials, perhaps?

[fudge stripe cookays]

20. If I was a parent in that school system,

I would attempt to contact the other parents-- buy several copies of the movie, and pass it around library book style.

It's ridiculous that one nutball can create the curriculum for an entire school district, keeping our children not only ignorant but stupid on purpose.

[MindPilot]

21. "Condoms don't belong in school"

Apparently that's not the only place they don't belong. Seven kids? Give it a rest!

[noiretextatique]

22. good lord

this shit is unbelievable. :wtf:

[LisaM]

23. Lots of interesting stuff on old Frosty....

In a November 15, 2006 LTE, he clearly believed the Earth was older than 100,000 years. His point is that cars didn't cause the Ice Age to end 30,000 years ago, and that 100,000 years ago the sun was younger.


http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:MosjPqvGbQIJ:fedwaymirror.com/portals-code/list.cgi%3Fpaper%3D91%26cat%3D48%26id%3D771448%26more%3D+%22frosty+hardison%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=11

[gatorboy]

25. Hmm, I think the guy also tried to run for office.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-501&cop=mss&p=%22Frosty+E.+Hardison

Apparently the man's not happy unless his shoving his beliefs down your other's throats.

Wasn't there a time when Repugs ran on the "Keep Government Out of Your Private Life" slogan?

[LisaM]

30. Did you see where he was taking PowerPoint slides to public meetings?

I guess no matter what little town you live in, no matter where, there is a Frosty Hardison. I can almost picture the guy (of course, I picture him as looking like the hillbilly guy on the Hemi ads, but he must be a bit more put together if he has a wife and kids).

[karlrschneider]

36. So he's not just a fundy, he's a fucking liar as well. Or at least a flip flopper.

"The levels of visible and invisible frequencies of light emitted by the sun have surely changed within the spectrum over the last few hundred thousand years."

:eyes:

[MidwestTransplant]

24. Caving to wingnuts is so passe now.

[XanaDUer]

26. Frosty, huh?

Oooookaaaaaay. :eyes:

[porphyrian]

27. What's a "Federal Way" school? If it isn't public, I don't give a shit.

However, the fuckhead has no business preaching his nutball religion in a public school.

[B Calm]

31. I think they are public schools. Here's a link

[porphyrian]

35. Hmm, that's weird. They have a .org address...

I don't know if anyone's interested, but here is the link to their School Board members and email addresses. You know, if you feel like letting them know what you think.

http://www.fwps.org/info/board/

[yewberry]

37. It's a town.

Federal Way, WA.

Named after the old highway, home to Weyerhaeuser.
There isn't much else of note about Federal Way, other than "Well, we're halfway to Tacoma now."

[porphyrian]

38. Ah, weird name for a town, but I get it now. Thanks. - n/t

[LondonReign2]

28. This must be from The Onion, right?

n/t

[valerief]

32. I hate these Reichwing nutsos who want the populace to be

mindless so they're easier to exploit.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

33. I'm afraid I think this guy is right, even though he's clearly nuts.

A film by someone who it's not quite inconceivable may be running for president in two years time, putting forward his point of view about something that will be a key issue if he does, should not be shown "at face value" in schools.

"Global Warming" is a scientific, not a political subject.

"Al Gore talks about global warming" is both, no matter how apolitical the content is.

There are plenty of good educational materials about global warming that aren't made by politicians.

[Uncle Joe]

34. Al Gore not a school teacher?

To my knowledge he has been a professor at three if not four universities after the coup of 2000.

[cascadiance]

39. How about asking to ban showing any broadcasts of Faux News...

You know the channel that gives us "unbiased" views like these?



Maybe get CNN banned too!