“They’ve made us the laughingstock of the world!”
So said Polk County School Board member Margaret Lofton after the descent of the Flying Spaghetti Monster hordes. But she was misplacing responsibility for her embarrassment. Lofton was one of five members of the Polk County School Board who declared their intention to mandate the teaching of religious intelligent design creationism in the public schools. Teach the controversy, they said. Tell both sides of the story, they said.
Pastafarians, adherents of the satirical Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, caught word of their intentions, and started sending requests that the Polk County School Board also mandate the teaching of the “scientific” theory that the universe was created by a giant, all-powerful flying spaghetti monster. Teach the controversy, they said. Tell all sides of the story, they said.
That brought the glare of the media lights, and the consistent thing for these creationists to do would have been to bring flying spaghetti monster theory into the curriculum, too. But rather than follow their argument to its logical end, the creationist members of the Polk County School Board withdrew its plans for mandated creationism.
“They’ve made us the laughingstock of the world!” complains Margaret Lofton. No, no, Ms. Lofton. You did that all by yourself.
““They’ve made us the laughingstock of the world!†complains Margaret Lofton. No, no, Ms. Lofton. You did that all by yourself.”
Well to be fair there were 4 other culprits involved in said laughingstock construction.
May his noodly appendages bless you, and keep you.
Ramen