Shirt banned for showing evolution

Oh, the stupid. It burns.

Smith-Cotton High School in Sedalia, Missouri, is taking issue with a t-shirt because it depicts scientific fact.

Recently, the school's marching band adopted a new slogan: "Brass Evolution." To promote this theme, the band issued shirts that featured a series of right-facing profiles showing an ape evolving into a human. (We've all seen a similar image before.)

But a group of right-wing parents complained to the school because the shirt defied their creationist stance. They demanded that the school ban the shirt.

So what did the school do? Why, it banned the shirt. Of course.

The school district's assistant superintendent required all the band members to give their "Brass Evolution" shirts back to the school. His excuse is that the district is required by law to remain neutral regarding religion.

Um, evolution isn't religion. It's science.

Ironically, by forcing students to comply with dominionist complaints, the school is violating the very law it's claiming to follow!

This is like saying math teachers can't teach that 2 plus 2 is 4.

Most parents though are outraged at school officials' decision to ban the shirt. One said that if she wanted her kids to be sheltered from science and the ability to make informed choices, she would have enrolled them in a private school.

This scandal is costing the town's working taxpayers dearly. By repossessing the t-shirts, the school is forced to absorb the $700 cost of the shirts.

Yet another school system has proven itself to be a poor arbiter of the working public's interests. Not unlike the checkbook clergy who tell congregants they're going to hell unless they vote Republican.

(Source: http://www.sedaliademocrat.com/news/0px-18740-span-font.html)