Jewish World Review April 28, 1999 /12 Iyar 5759
David Corn
Darwin Made Me Do It
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IN THE AFTERMATH of the high school massacre in Littleton, CO, there was
the predictable blame game. (How inconvenient it was for Charlton Heston
and his NRA that they had scheduled their national convention in Denver
this week.) The denunciations of Hollywood, television, the Internet,
popular music and video games were de rigueur—as were the cries of the
religious right that school violence stems from the 1962 Supreme Court
decision to ban prayer in public schools.
Within this highly competitive
world of soundbite scowling, the Rev. Jerry Falwell—scourge of
Teletubbies and self-proclaimed expert on the “Jewish male”
Antichrist—managed to distinguish himself, pointing a chubby finger at
evolution and abortion: “The culture of death flourishes in the
abortion-rights community that attempts to convince children there are
few consequences to casual sex.” I know several leaders of the
abortions-right community, and I have never heard a single one of
them—or any other advocate of abortion rights—tell children that casual
sex is just dandy and carries no consequences. Let’s see Falwell’s
evidence. It is doubtful that the Trenchcoat Mafiosi who committed this
diabolical deed were under the influence of Ms. magazine.
“Another fundamental cause of the disregard for human life in the hearts
of our youth is the teaching of evolution,” Falwell huffed. “Children
are taught that they are higher forms of animal life, created by
chance—not by a Divine Creator.”
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His name is Jerry and he's almost as amusing
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No wonder Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
went nuts. It was the science teacher’s fault.But wait a minute. Falwell
is giving animals a bad rap. How many animals mindlessly slaughter
members of their clans for sport? It appears only representatives of our
species commit such actions. Given that, one could assert that we have
something to learn from the non-Divine creatures of the world. Yet
Falwell wants to teach creationism in schools. In other words, guns
don’t kill, textbooks
do.
JWR contributor David Corn is the "Loyal Opposition" columnist at New York Press. Send your comments to him by clicking here.
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