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Daily Kos: Flying spaghetti monster defeats anti-evolution FL school board

As reported a few days ago in the Tampa Tribune, the saga all started last month when a reporter for The Ledger, the countys local newspaper in Lakeland, FL, called school board member Kay Harris Fields to ask her opinion of the pending state science standards. The story quoted Fields as opposing the evolution portion of the new standards and looking for the superintendent to say whether there was anything to be done about them locally.The Ledger followed up with another story a week later where it polled all school board members on the issue and reported that five of seven school board members declared a personal belief in the concept of intelligent design, and four of those five board members said they would like to see intelligent design taught in Polk schools as an alternative to evolution. One of those four board members, Margaret Lofton, made her views on the topic quite clear:

“If it ever comes to the board for a vote, I will vote against the teaching of evolution as part of the science curriculum,” Lofton said. “If evolution is taught, I would want to balance it with the fact that we may live in a universe created by a supreme being as well.”

Enter the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

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