Louisiana's Senate Education Committee rejected legislation that would have repealed a controversial anti-evolution law. Recent high school graduate Zach Kopplin spearheaded the effort to turn back the legislation, but a 5-1 vote keeps it in place for now.
Kopplin told senators that he is more concerned about the law's potential consequences than as he is about what has happened so far. He noted that the Family Forum successfully lobbied the state education agency, when it was drafting implementation rules, not to ban intelligent design and creationism instruction in science class. Responding to a question, he told Quinn that he does not have a problem with biblical passages and religious doctrines being a part of humanities courses such as literature, history and philosophy.
