Not in the Bible... Then It's Obscene UPDATE! I'VE BEEN CAUGHT WITH MY PANTSDOWN!
The story that started this was satire. It caught me and others off-guard and now I'm red faced. My apologies to the fake characters in this story whom were disparaged. #$#&%@#$%!
Normally when I think of kids playing on steel pipe shaped into unique structures, I think, “Damn spoiled kids! I only got a rectangular set of monkey bars to fall off of!” All kids should be subject to the same boredom and perils as me because it obviously builds character. Well, the kids in Alameda County are doomed to having less character than me.
In and around Alameda there have been DNA sculptures added. The structures make for good play time for kids. Some parents are not enjoying the time that her child gets to play on the structure. John Copeland had this to say about his daughter and the sculpture, “She shouldn’t be talking to me about this. Now I’m forced to explain genetics to her, and why the Bible doesn’t say anything about it.” Jenny Garrotte, Claremont Park PTA president, said she found it distasteful and verging on obscene.
Far be it from my nature to reject out of hand clear and present stupidity (verging on sarcasm here). but calling something obscene because the Bible doesn’t contain a reference to it is a bit of a stretch. As a member of society I’m concerned that you are explaining anything to a being with an impressionable mind. Can you imagine raising a child where you were offended every time you had to explain something not found in the Bible? The next thing you know he might see a globe instead of a map and want to know if the earth is round. This isn’t a stretch Shari Shepherd wasn’t sure what she’d teach her child. Vid Link. No Ice Ages, Dinosaurs, Donkey’s are only faking that they can’t talk.
We need to repudiate this group publicly. The PTA needs to state without equivocation that this type of thinking is dangerous and remove them from any position that wields influence over other people’s children. I find it repugnant when a group seeks to prevent others from seeking education. If a family chooses to dumb down their family, there isn’t much that I can do about that. Try to dumb down other people’s children and you are stealing their future. That’s something we can do something about. I find it amazing to see how afraid of knowledge many fundies are.
As an aside, the link to the original story is down. You can find it reposted in this blog.
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Comment by Morgan Matthew on August 14, 2009 at 3:34am -
Unbelievable.
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Comment by Dan on August 14, 2009 at 4:52am -
Wow.
Well, Ambulances, Fire Trucks, Police Cars, Doctors, Hospitals, Pizza, Monday Night Football.....etc are not mentioned in the bible either. Let's call them out on it next time they need any of those things or the 40 bazillion other things they use that aren't in the bible.
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Comment by Dave G on August 14, 2009 at 10:31am -
There's only one major problem with the John Copeland/DNA sculpture story.
It's not true.
The site of the original article (which is back up), State Of Protest published the article as satire, poking fun at the protests on nude statuary.
However, as occasionally happens with skilled satire (particularly when it is also an effective Poe), people believed it. So many people, in fact, that the site has had to put up a disclaimer stating in no uncertain terms that it is a satirical article in the nature of the articles published in the Onion.
Now Sherri Shepard, she's still an idiot.
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Comment by Gaytor on August 14, 2009 at 10:45am -
Son of a... Nice find Dave. Last night I couldn't get on to their website at all and that's why I only had the blog reference. Is State of Protest normally satirical?
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Comment by Dave G on August 14, 2009 at 11:06am
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I'm not sure, Gaylor, I've not spent much time there. However, judging by some of the comments, I suspect that it is not normally satirical, which contributed to the confusion.
When I first read the article, my first thought was "A DNA sculpture? Cool!" It turns out that the sculpture does exist, by the way, it's just in a museum. :)
I would not have been surprised if people had truly reacted this way to a DNA sculpture, some people are just that nuts, but the 'DNA is not in the Bible!' comment seemed a bit off to me. A bit of poking about found the story to be likely to be satire, although the original site was no longer accessible.
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Comment by State of Protest on August 14, 2009 at 6:03pm -
Is State of Protest normally satirical?
About 6 truly satirical posts out of 267, so, I'd say not. However, I'm finding it to be more and more of an effective way to bring attention to important issues, as my This is Satire article suggests.
Sorry about the site being down. I've been having server issues.
Footnote 3 in the DNA article, plus some of my comments and the This is Satire article all contribute to the reasoning behind the DNA satire. Hope you all enjoyed it and it made the brain churn a bit.
Let me know if you have any questions/suggestions/gripes. :)
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