{"id":9592,"date":"2011-03-17T15:47:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T15:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/03\/17\/antievolution-bill-dies-in-ken\/"},"modified":"2011-03-17T15:47:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T15:47:18","slug":"antievolution-bill-dies-in-ken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/17\/antievolution-bill-dies-in-ken\/","title":{"rendered":"Antievolution bill dies in Kentucky"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When the Kentucky legislature adjourned sine die on March 9, 2011, House Bill 169 died in committee. A special session of the legislature will convene starting on March 14, 2011, but only to consider two unrelated items, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader (March 10, 2011). HB 169, if enacted, would have allowed teachers to &#8220;use, as permitted by the local school board, other instructional materials to help students understand, analyze, critique, and review scientific theories in an objective manner.&#8221; No particular scientific theories were cited in HB 169, but the similar HB 397 introduced by the same legislator &#8212; Tim Moore (R-District 26) &#8212; in the previous legislative session explicitly listed &#8220;the study of evolution, the origins of life, global warming, and human cloning&#8221; as examples of scientific theories for which supplementary instructional materials could be used. The exact phrase appears in the Louisiana Science Education Act, Louisiana Revised Statutes 17:285.1, on which HB 397 was apparently based.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncse.com\/news\/2011\/03\/antievolution-bill-dies-kentucky-006540\">NCSE<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Kentucky legislature adjourned sine die on March 9, 2011, House Bill 169 died in committee. A special session of the legislature will convene starting on March 14, 2011, but only to consider two unrelated items, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader (March 10, 2011). HB 169, if enacted, would have allowed teachers to &#8220;use, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/17\/antievolution-bill-dies-in-ken\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Antievolution bill dies in Kentucky<\/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\/p5fhV1-2uI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9592"}],"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=9592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}