Over at PT, Hector Avalos is reporting that the deadline has passed for the DI-inspired "Evolution Academic Freedom Act” (HF 183) to move out of committee in Iowa. This one is now officially dead. Thus the scorecard so far looks like:
- Mississippi - dead in committee
- Oklahoma - dead in committee
- Iowa - dead in committee
- New Mexico - in committee
- Alabama - in committee
- Missouri - in committee
- Florida - in committee
- Texas - at state board
This brings the tally for 2009 to three dead out of eight. Frankly I can't imagine the DI is terribly happy about this.
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Mississippi - dead in committee…
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Eight of eight would be nice.
Woot! Yay for my home state. OK, I left it 25 years ago, but still......
This issues can never be logical.