Clinging Pennsyltuckians

Pennsyltucky is the part of Pennsylvania where folks that "cling to their guns and religion" live and vote. They send quite a few less than brilliant folks to represent them in our state capitol, Harrisburg. Not for not the first time, one of them proposes legislation to allow public school kids to "question the strengths and weaknesses of scientific theory". The proposer is State Rep Stephen Bloom, from one of our mid-state counties, who actually has a law degree and could well thrive outside the womb of the PA legislature (many of his colleagues would have a real hard time at this),
Previous attempts to include creationism and intelligent design, for which no tangible evidence can be found anywhere, have been tossed by the courts. Thus it is somewhat interesting that the measure to sneak that stuff in under the door has been conjured up by a real lawyer.
The proposed legislation states that "the teaching of some scientific subjects, including but not limited to, biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming and human cloning can cause controversy."
The controversy about well established science is not caused by its teaching. Science is about discovery and proof, It is not about dogma and religious nonsense. The only real controversy about teaching science is brought to us by crackpot politicians and the stupid or greedy folks that lend them support and the poor souls that elect them.
In much of the civilized world they "could not be elected dog catcher in our smallest village" (this from a Chilean  Fulbright Scholar who visited during the most recent national election campaign, and observed closely some of the Republican party's  presidential hopefuls in person).