{"id":4599,"date":"2009-02-19T10:37:35","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T10:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/02\/19\/stop-denying-the-existence-of\/"},"modified":"2009-02-19T10:37:35","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T10:37:35","slug":"stop-denying-the-existence-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/19\/stop-denying-the-existence-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Denying The Existence of the Divine Creator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Washington.  That&#8217;s the idea of newly proposed ballot measure.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThis measure would prohibit state use of public money or lands for anything that denies or attempts to refute the existence of a supreme ruler of the universe, including textbooks, instruction or research.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<form mt:asset-id=\"6140\" class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-322f44ce7fbf61d1a60d5c336990f436-supreme_being.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-322f44ce7fbf61d1a60d5c336990f436-supreme_being.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/form>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">The Supreme Being.  Stop Denying Him\/Her.  <\/div>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nIf I was living in Washington, I&#8217;d be very tempted to vote yes on this.  I&#8217;d also be lobbying to make sure the language gets cleaned up so that it can&#8217;t be struck down on the grounds of some dumb-ass technicality.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, not long into the future, this act will be struck down by the US supreme court (or some lower court) on basic separation grounds.  That will then form a much more direct and easy to use precedence.<\/p>\n<p>Then, the money comes off the bills, the commandments come out of the court rooms, and the creationists are arrested at the door of the school board hearing room.<\/p>\n<p>At the very least I want to see this ballot question go far enough to be heavily covered and debated in the public square.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2009\/02\/washington_state_kook_wants_a.php\">This is being discussed at Pharyngula, and PZ dug up this particular item. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Washington. That&#8217;s the idea of newly proposed ballot measure. This measure would prohibit state use of public money or lands for anything that denies or attempts to refute the existence of a supreme ruler of the universe, including textbooks, instruction or research. The Supreme Being. Stop Denying Him\/Her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[207,55,156,2486],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1cb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599"}],"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=4599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}