Tolerant As A Muslim

Would you believe the Ohio Board of Education and the U.S. Air Force?

The Ohio school board voted Tuesday to eliminate a passage in the state's science standards that critics said opened the door to the teaching of intelligent design.

The Ohio Board of Education decided 11-4 to delete material encouraging students to seek evidence for and against evolution.

The 2002 science standards say students should be able to "describe how scientists continue to investigate and critically analyze aspects of evolutionary theory." The standards include a disclaimer that they do not require the teaching of intelligent design.

The secularist imams of the educracy strike again. How dare Ohio's "science standards" proclaim the search for truth - which used to be the raison d'etere of real science - in lieu of mythological evolutionary dogma. Even with an anti-ID disclaimer, no less. All heil the Great Quantum Fluctuation, whether you believe it or not. That doesn't "establish" any philosphical worldview, now does it?

But the these days, some worldviews are more equal than others:

The U.S. Air Force’s controversial new policy dealing with religious tolerance is being blasted by a member of Congress and a Navy chaplain who say the policy will ban chaplains from using the name of Jesus when praying at official gatherings.

"I'm very disappointed that they're still trying to censor the content of our prayers," Navy chaplain, Lieutenant Gordon Klingenschmitt told the New York Sun.

According to the Sun, while the new Air Force guidelines issued just last week do not explicitly ban sectarian prayers at military ceremonies, a Jewish chaplain told the Jewish Week newspaper that such prayers would be banned. The rules indicate that it may be appropriate to offer "non-denominational, inclusive prayer, or a moment of silence."

"To me the word non-denominational is a code word for no Jesus," said Lieutenant Klingenschmitt, an Episcopal priest who the Washington Times reports once mounted a brief hunger strike over the issue at the White House last year. "I have to pray a Muslim, Christian, Jewish prayer at the same time. I don't know how to do that," he complained.

Not without condemning himself as an infidel and blowing himself up, anyway.

I also notice that in none of these referenced articles is quoted any complaints from Muslim chaplains. Which would seem to suggest either that they are cool with being banned from mentioning Allah or Mohammed (heh), they are tranquilly tolerant of their fellow monothestic faiths (double heh), or the religiophobic Air Force policy either formally or informally exempts Muslims.

One thing's for sure: if it doesn't exempt them, we'll be hearing about very soon - and very "loudly."

Think they'll put in a good word for their Christian and Jewish counterparts? (triple heh)