Dobson's World: Jesus hates the Flying Spaghetti Monster

Via AmericaBlog, we see that the Christian Right are diligently protecting the young against Satanic influences in schools: Creature's picture irks Board of Ed member by Icess Fernandez Wichita Eagle 04/13/06. I could never have the imagination to make stuff like this up:

State Board of Education member Connie Morris took exception Wednesday to a picture of a made-up creature that satirizes the state's new science standards hanging on a Stucky Middle School teacher's door.

Fellow board member Sue Gamble told The Eagle that Morris asked for the picture to be removed.

The creature, called the Flying Spaghetti Monster, is the creation of Bobby Henderson of Corvallis, Ore. It looks like a clump of spaghetti with two eyes sticking out of the top and two meatballs flanking the eyes.

Henderson created the entity and an accompanying mythology on the origin of mankind to make fun of Kansas' recent debate over the teaching of criticisms of evolution, including intelligent design.

In November, the board voted 6-4 to allow criticisms of evolution to be taught in Kansas schools.

But criticizing the hokeyness of the creationists' brand of "criticism" is just going way too far, you see.

The article says that as of that writing, neither the principal nor the teacher had agree to take it down. The Forces of Darkness are still holding out, it seems.

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