{"id":24880,"date":"2011-03-10T05:07:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T05:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/03\/10\/intelligent-design-legislation\/"},"modified":"2011-03-10T05:07:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T05:07:36","slug":"intelligent-design-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/10\/intelligent-design-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Intelligent design&#8221; legislation in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Disingenuous efforts by creationists to portray themselves as persecuted in mainstream academia for their anti-evolution beliefs are getting a boost from a Texas lawmaker,&#8221; reported the Texas Freedom Network in a March 9, 2011, post on its blog. House Bill 2454, introduced in the Texas House of Representatives on March 8, 2011, would, if enacted, provide, &#8220;An institution of higher education may not discriminate against or penalize in any manner, especially with regard to employment or academic support, a faculty member or student based on the faculty member&#8217;s or student&#8217;s conduct of research relating to the theory of intelligent design or other alternate theories of the origination and development of organisms.&#8221; The sole sponsor of HB 2454 is Bill Zedler (R-District 96).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncse.com\/news\/2011\/03\/intelligent-design-legislation-texas-006531\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Disingenuous efforts by creationists to portray themselves as persecuted in mainstream academia for their anti-evolution beliefs are getting a boost from a Texas lawmaker,&#8221; reported the Texas Freedom Network in a March 9, 2011, post on its blog. House Bill 2454, introduced in the Texas House of Representatives on March 8, 2011, would, if enacted, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/10\/intelligent-design-legislation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Intelligent design&#8221; legislation in Texas<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6ti","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}