Creationism? Seriously?<\/em><\/p>\n So when the Liberal folks came by yesterday and asked me if they could stick a sign on my lawn, apolitical as I usually am, I said yes. Because this single issue is enough to sway my vote. It’s not that I’m not open to other points of view, and I fully support teaching kids to be open minded and critical thinkers. But creationism has no basis in fact. It’s completely fallacious and flies in the face of hundreds of years of scientific theory. It’s not a theory, it’s a fantasy. And there is no place for it in a publicly funded school.<\/p>\n But I’m willing to make a deal with you. I’ll take down that Liberal sign and put up a Conservative sign, and leave it there all through the election, even though my skin will crawl just a little bit every time I look out my window. And all you have to do is confirm that Flying Spaghetti Monsterism <\/a>will also<\/em> be taught in publicly funded schools. I mean, that’s only fair, right? Balanced.<\/p>\n Sincerely yours, Dear Mr Tory, This is my happy little blog, which tends to be very non-political. Unless you get me riled up about daycare. Or reproductive rights. But mostly, I’m pretty happy to hang out here and tell my stories. I’d say probably half the people who read this blog don’t live in Ontario, so they … Continue reading “An open letter to John Tory”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-inner-geek","category-rants-and-rambles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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