Monday, March 21, 2011

Texas Lawmaker Defends Bill That Would Protect Creationists On The Job



Last week, I wrote about an unusual piece of legislation in Texas that would ban workplace discrimination against creationists. HB 2454 would make it a crime to "discriminate against or penalize in any manner" a professor or student based on his or her "conduct of research relating to the theory of intelligent design." On Friday, the author of the bill, Republican state Rep. Bill Zedler of Arlington, called me to defend it. Here's an excerpt from our conversation:

1 comment:

Chris said...

wowsers... that is a very confused man.


BTW as an aside, on this side of the Atlantic the phrase "on the job" has another meaning :)