From The Times Picayune:
Vitter earmarked federal money for creationist group
WASHINGTON — Sen. David Vitter, R-La., earmarked $100,000 in a spending bill for a Louisiana Christian group that has challenged the teaching of Darwinian evolution in the public school system and to which he has political ties.
The money is included in the labor, health and education financing bill for fiscal 2008 and specifies payment to the Louisiana Family Forum “to develop a plan to promote better science education.”
I guess this is to make up for the earmarks he left on the inner thighs of one Ms. Wendy Cortez, New Orleans prostitute. Ms. Cortez was one of the many who responded to Larry Flynt’s call for dirt on public officials.
In a libertarian world this wouldn’t matter because libertarians don’t care about consensual adult sex. Libertarians wouldn’t take your hard earned money by force to fund shit with which you don’t agree while making laws against things you may responsibly enjoy. But, since lawmakers like Vitter have determined that we must live in their world of Republican “family values,” I think it is only fair to crucify them when they practice blatant hypocrisy.
Live by the sword, die by the sword. Perhaps Sen. Vitter should have studied Matthew instead of Genesis.
Mild correction: some libertarians do care about consensual sex (whether monogamously or promiscuously), it just ain’t none of the f’in governments business.
Great post. Time for Vitter to get the post.
What an assmunch.