{"id":1692,"date":"2004-11-14T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-14T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/14\/god-bless-america-land-of-the-pollution-free-naps\/"},"modified":"2004-11-14T16:23:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-14T16:23:00","slug":"god-bless-america-land-of-the-pollution-free-naps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/14\/god-bless-america-land-of-the-pollution-free-naps\/","title":{"rendered":"God bless america, land of the pollution-free naps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terri Leo is a <a href=\"http:\/\/pharyngula.org\/index\/weblog\/comments\/sultana_of_the_texas_taliban_scourge_of_scholars_despoiler_of_textbooks\/\">popular villain<\/a> in the science press right now. She&apos;s on the Texas State Board of Education, the second-largest textbook buying body in the country, and she has worked liked a demon to get references to evolution, global warming, pollution, overpopulation, and contraception from textbooks used in her state. Given that her state is the second-largest textbook buying body in the country, that gives her a scary amount of power in deciding what goes into textbooks. She&apos;s responsible for the acceptance of a &#8220;health&#8221; textbook that recommends, as a form of birth control, <b>naps<\/b>, on the grounds that &#8220;it may be harder to make the responsible decision to remain abstinent when you are tired.&#8221; (Rc note: Did you know that Texas is the #1 ranked state for teen pregnancy?)<\/p>\n<p>This year, her target is &#8220;asexual stealth phrases.&#8221; She wants phrases like &#8220;married people&#8221; replaced with &#8220;A husband and wife in a life-long union,&#8221; claiming that the original phrase may confuse children into believing that men can marry men or something.<\/p>\n<p>Original blog entry yoinked from <a href=\"http:\/\/users.livejournal.com\/elfs\/profile\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stat.livejournal.com\/img\/userinfo.gif\" alt=\"[info]\" width=\"17\" height=\"17\" border=\"0\" align=\"absmiddle\"\/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/users.livejournal.com\/elfs\/\"><b>elfs<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terri Leo is a popular villain in the science press right now. She&apos;s on the Texas State Board of Education, the second-largest textbook buying body in the country, and she has worked liked a demon to get references to evolution, global warming, pollution, overpopulation, and contraception from textbooks used in her state. Given that her&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/14\/god-bless-america-land-of-the-pollution-free-naps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;God bless america, land of the pollution-free naps&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-ri","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}