忘却からの帰還〜Intelligent Design

1981年のルイジアナ州均等州法の提案者Bill P. Keith州上院議員(民主党)を顕彰する決議案がルイジアナ州上院に提案されたが、他の州上院議員たちに相手にされることなく、会期切れで廃案となった。

州法案	Louisiana Senate Resolution 33, 2018 Regular Session
提案者	John Milkovich 州上院議員 (民主党 District 38)
共同提案者
提案	2018/03/20
廃案	2018/05/18 会期切れで廃案

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[ Louisiana 2018 SR33 ]

A RESOLUTION

To commend former Louisiana state Senator Bill Keith on his support and endorsement of teaching creationism in the public schools.
WHEREAS, Bill Keith served as a Louisiana state senator from 1980 until the expiration of his term in 1984, representing District Thirty-nine in Caddo Parish; and
WHEREAS, born in 1934 in Oklahoma, Bill Keith was a journalist who worked for the now defunct Shreveport Journal as an investigative reporter; and
WHEREAS, upon being elected to the Louisiana Senate as a resident of Mooringsport, Louisiana, in Caddo Parish, Bill Keith, a Democrat, was a particular proponent of a state law requiring balanced treatment in the instruction of creationism and evolution in public schools; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Keith received national attention for legislation he introduced which required equal emphasis in public school science instruction to creation science and to evolution; and
WHEREAS, Bill Keith recalled that his interest in the matter developed in 1978 when his then thirteen year old son came home from school to report that a teacher had ridiculed the teen's belief in God as the creator of human life; and
WHEREAS, the bill passed both houses of the legislature, was signed by then Governor David Treen, and was entitled the "Balanced Treatment for Creation-Science and Evolution-Science Act;" and
WHEREAS, the act required that scientific evidence for creation-science, the view of abrupt appearance of organisms in the fossil records, whenever related material on evolution was presented in science class instruction; and
WHEREAS, Senator Keith's legislation did not require or allow instruction in any religious doctrine; and
WHEREAS, Keith's legislation was subsequently overruled by the United States Supreme Court in a 1987 decision in Edwards v. Aguillard with the court holding that the law was specifically intended to advance a particular religious doctrine; and
WHEREAS, in 1983 Senator Keith was defeated for a second term for the District Thirty-nine seat by Democrat and owner of J. S. Williams Funeral Home and insurance companies, Gregory Tarver; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Keith left Louisiana shortly after his term ended and moved to east Texas where he published a weekly newspaper in Marshall, Texas, and he began his career as a writer of fiction and nonfiction, including his 2009 book "The Commissioner: A True Story of Deceit, Dishonor, and Death", a study of Shreveport Public Safety Commissioner George W. D'Artois who held office in the city until his death in 1977.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby commend former Louisiana state Senator Bill Keith on his support and endorsement of teaching creationism in the public schools.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to Bill Keith of Longview, Texas.

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