“If I closed my mind when I saw this man in the dust throwing some bones on the ground, semi-clothed, if I had closed him off and just said, ‘That’s not science, I am not going to see this doctor,’ I would have shut off a very good experience for myself and actually would not have discovered some things that he told me that I had to do when I got home to see my doctor.”
—State Sen. Elbert Guillory (R/D/R-Opelousas), defending Louisiana’s Science Education Act, the 2008 law that allows creationism to be taught in public school science classrooms during a Senate Education Committee hearing last May.



Ya had to be there to really be in the moment. One of my most “treasured” memories.
Elbert Guillory is a disgrace to the Guillorys of color namesake of South Louisiana.
That wacky tobacky! Alleluia. Sign him up, onward Religious Right.
Ooo eee,ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla, bing bang
Ooo eee ooo ah ah ting tang
Walla walla bing bang…
My friend the witch doctor
He taught me what to say
My friend the witch doctor
He taught me what to do…
http://www.songlyrics.com/david-seville/the-witch-doctor-lyrics/#43Ftl4jtEDZREoZo.99
Sadly, quite apropos.