darwin_apeOne cannot teach biology without teaching evolution.  It would be like trying to teach physical education, with no running allowed.  Our enlightened government though is going to put that assertion to the test.  This bill was put forward with the publically stated intention of enshrining the protection same sex couples.  In reality, Bill 44 gives parents the option to remove their children from any course material that contains sexual or religious content.  Furthermore, teachers must notify parents in writing when such a contentious issue will be discussed in class.  (Thankfully the amended bill allows for unplanned anecdotal mentions of religion and sexuality).

What is wrong with Bill 44 is the unconscious reinforcement of the heterogendered ideal.

Homosexuality is just as normal as heterosexual behaviour in nature.  It just seems that the alleged creator (see also the magic sky fairy) of the entire UNIVERSE has real problems with whom and how we have intimate relationships with.  It says so in the same book that slavery is great and contends unabashedly that pi is 3. (Three cheers for biblical accuracy and morality!)  If you wish to arm your children with 2000 year old “wisdom” please, be my guest (feel free to not believe in germ theory as well).  Just do not expect your delusions to be catered to in the public secular school system.  There are many religious schooling options available to addle your children with mystical buffoonery.

There is not a ‘happy medium’ when in comes to the evolution/creation debate.  We must not equivocate when it comes to rational thought versus religious codswallop.  If we are to teach fact, then we must teach evolution.  If we want to teach myth then we can look to religion.  The two topics have nothing to do with each other and vary on the key point that one is based on testable, proven fact; the other on the stories that semi-literate shepherds cooked up in the hot sun of the Middle East 2000 years ago.