Vitter's $100K violation of the First Amendment

Remember Louisiana Senator David Vitter, the one who cheated on his wife with a woman and not a man, so he's still AOK with the GOP?

Yeah, him. Turns out he's slimy in more than one way. He has inserted an earmark into a Senate appropriations bill to give $100,000 to a religious organization so they can promote creationism and lie about evolution to school kids in Louisiana.

Nice, huh?

The organization is the Louisiana Family Forum, founded by Tony Perkins (no, not the one who portrayed a mass-murdering knife-wielding maniac who slayed innocents in the shower; this one has much worse plans for America). Under the guise of being for "family values" (just like Vitter!) they promote the worst kind of far-right religious stultification of progress.

This appropriations bill goes to the Senate floor very soon (possibly even today, October 16). Call your Senators and tell them to remove this earmark, if only because it's such an obvious violation of the First Amendment, but also because it's a damn foolish waste of taxpayer money. Creationism is simply wrong, and by promoting it to our kids we're setting America back about 200 years. Maybe a thousand.

I called my Senator, Ken Salazar (D-CO), last night, and left a message. Here's a recording I made of the call:

We have to be pro-active and stop this kind of garbage.