I'm a couple of days late on this article, but it should be read by anyone who is interested in stopping the fanatic religious fundamentalists:

State Representative Cynthia Davis of Missouri prefiled two bills for the next session of the Legislature that she said "reflect what people want." One would remove the state's requirement that all forms of contraception and their potential health effects be taught in schools, leaving the focus on abstinence. Another would require publishers that sell biology textbooks to Missouri to include at least one chapter with alternative theories to evolution.

"These are common-sense, grass-roots ideas from the people I represent, and I'd be very surprised if a majority of legislators didn't feel they were the right solutions to these problems," Ms. Davis said.

"It's like when the hijackers took over those four planes on Sept. 11 and took people to a place where they didn't want to go," she added. "I think a lot of people feel that liberals have taken our country somewhere we don't want to go. I think a lot more people realize this is our country and we're going to take it back."

Creationism is 'common sense'? Abstinence-only education is 'common sense'? Read a paper, you moron, and figure out how well abstinence-only education works. Read a book, you medievalist, and join us here in the modern world.

State Representative Davis has the gall to compare liberals with the 9/11 terrorists. The reality is that those people who flew planes into buildings that day did so in accordance with the very ideals that she embodies: religious fanaticism, intolerance, and ignorance. Under different circumstances, I bet she and they would get along just dandily. They could go bowling together.