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		<title>Livingston Parish School Board Wants to Implement Discovery Institute&#8217;s &#8220;Academic Freedom&#8221; Law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Barbara Forrest Well, the Discovery Institute is apparently going to be nicely repaid for its investment in the Pelican State. DI&#8217;s promotion of its academic freedom legislation in Louisiana is bearing fruit. At its July 22, 2010, meeting, the Livingston Parish School Board announced its interest in teaching creationism under the 2008 Louisiana Science [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lasciencecoalition.org/2010/07/29/livingston-parish-and-discover-institute-law/</link>
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		<title>Irony as Thick as Gulf Oil in Louisiana</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Barbara Forrest There are times when the irony of life is so thick that one has to just stand back and marvel at it. Now is one of those times in Louisiana. June 25, 2010, marked exactly two years to the day since Gov. Bobby Jindal signed the creationist Louisiana Science Education Act (LSEA). [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lasciencecoalition.org/2010/06/28/irony-thick-as-oil-in-louisiana/</link>
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		<title>We need some Florida backbone in the Louisiana legislature.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Request to readers: If Louisiana readers like the posts on this website, please consider sharing them with as many people as possible, including your elected officials, science teacher friends, school administrators, school board members, media contacts, etc. Please don&#8217;t spam; be considerate and send them only to people whom you think will benefit from them. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lasciencecoalition.org/2010/06/20/florida-backbone-in-louisiana-legislature/</link>
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		<title>The South Carolina bill is dead — Louisiana . . . still . . . NUMBER ONE!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Barbara Forrest As the whole world knows, we&#8217;re not having fun in Louisiana right now. The terrible, ongoing tragedy in the beautiful Gulf of Mexico threatens to wipe out a culture and way of life that have existed here for 300 years. (To help families who face the loss of everything they have worked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lasciencecoalition.org/2010/06/04/south-carolina-bill-dead-louisiana-still-number-1/</link>
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		<title>Gene Mills Says Credit Goes to . . . Jesus!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This bill is not about teaching creationism or religion.&#8221; — Rev. Gene Mills, Louisiana Family Forum Hammond Daily Star, 4/11/08 Update 6/1/10: The photo above is linked to Focus on the Family&#8217;s YouTube interview of Rev. Mills. In this interview, he explains that God is working through him in the Louisiana Family Forum&#8217;s public policy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lasciencecoalition.org/2010/05/27/gene-mills-says-credit-jesus/</link>
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		<title>Update: Knox County School Board Shows BESE How to Conduct Public Policy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Barbara Forrest In April, Kurt Zimmermann, parent of a student at Farragut High School in Tennessee, asked the Knox County, Tennessee, School Board to remove his son&#8217;s honors biology textbook, Asking About Life, from the classroom because it refers to the biblical creation account as a &#8220;myth.&#8221; There is a Louisiana connection to this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lasciencecoalition.org/2010/05/21/knox-county-school-board-shows-bese/</link>
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		<title>Show &#8220;Judgment Day&#8221; in Louisiana Public Schools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Barbara Forrest To increase high school students’ exposure to evolutionary theory prior to their enrolling in a college biology course, a high school biology teacher in Louisiana could request to show his/her students Judgment Day. The program appears to meet the &#8216;supplemental instructional materials&#8217; criterion of the Louisiana Science Education Act (LSEA). Certainly we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lasciencecoalition.org/2010/05/02/show-judgment-day-in-la-public-schools/</link>
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		<title>Nothin&#8217; in Louisiana but &#8220;Academic Freedom&#8221; (Right)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Barbara Forrest Quote #1: I think a real careful reading of the statute itself would show that religion is prohibited from being taught in any classroom in the state of Louisiana under the auspices of this law. . . . I think it enhances academic freedom and expands a student&#8217;s right to know . [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lasciencecoalition.org/2010/04/25/nothin-but-academic-freedom/</link>
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		<title>Three Courageous Italian Scientists — An Example for Louisiana</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Barbara Forrest This website is normally devoted to providing information about the teaching of evolution and the fight against creationism in Louisiana and related topics. However, important science-related issues sometimes arise that our readers should know about. The following is one of those issues, and there is a lesson in it for Louisiana:  three [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lasciencecoalition.org/2010/04/18/three-courageous-italian-scientists/</link>
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		<title>Common Sense Rules in Kentucky</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Barbara Forrest Kentucky House Bill 397, a clone of the 2008 Louisiana Science Education Act, is dead. HB 397 (BR 1517) &#8211; T. Moore, J. Carney AN ACT relating to science education and intellectual freedom. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to encourage local district teachers and administrators to foster an environment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lasciencecoalition.org/2010/04/17/common-sense-in-kentucky/</link>
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