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I really think your ire in this is misguided, Lloydletta.
Opponents of the hearings by a three-member panel of the Kansas State Board of Education say they are a "publicity stunt" -- more theater than substance. But critics say it is essential that the state board and students learn more about evidence that contradicts evolution -- viewpoints they say are often shunned by closed-minded colleagues.
"We would go a long way in this discussion by simply having the majority view say, 'We don't know' instead of saying, 'We do know and this is what it is: It's a naturalistic process,' " said William Harris, the first witness and a leading proponent of changing the standards.
Harris, professor of medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and a founder of the Intelligent Design network, has led dissenting members of the committee revising the state's science standards.
Intelligent design is the idea that life is too complicated to have been created by chance and some aspects show signs of being designed.
Some of the changes Harris and others are proposing are consistent with intelligent design, but Harris said intelligent design is a "new and maturing science" and it would be inappropriate to mandate teaching it. Instead, he said, students should learn evidence against the theory of evolution, particularly when it comes to species evolving into new species.
Your reader's comment as cited below smacks of the same intolerance and stereotyping as practiced by the "Leviticus crowd" of anyone who would diverge from or criticize their doctrine. Furthermore, it would disqualify people like myself from employment, who were taught both.
Looks like there's a wagonfull of heretics in today's Strib, too. Damn French propaganda!! 
While I agree with the letter-writer's anger, I'm afraid it will accomplish nothing. If I was a board member, I would have stopped reading after the first sentence.
Rule #1 of letter writing campaigns: Be respectful to the people to whom you are writing.
That letter got filed in the circular file. I guarantee it. I hope your publishing it is not to set an example of how people should frame their letters.
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