Blue-State - Red-State Fight: Take One

What in the hell does this have to do with George Bush?

Last month, Williams filed suit in federal court in Oakland claiming that administrators were "systematically rejecting" any reference to God or Christianity in his handouts. Williams said his speech and academic freedom had been restricted "because of its religious content and viewpoint."

The debate over Williams' methods has electrified the evangelical and conservative network that helped return Bush to the White House last month.

One result: The normally placid school district, in a town where Bush got only 33 percent of the vote Nov. 2, has been bombarded by 3,000 e-mails and 350 phone calls. At least one police officer has been patrolling Stevens Creek School in recent days.

With many critics saying they heard that the school district is "banning the Declaration of Independence," and a few choice e-mails suggesting that "all of you in the school district can burn in hell," Cupertino's spokesman, Jeffrey Nishihara, somewhat exasperated, said, "The district has not stopped teaching about the Declaration of Independence."

When I read the whole article, it seemed odd that Bush's name came up as a source of the discontent in this small, peaceful, South-Bay town. At no point does this teacher make any reference to George Bush in his class other than a simple quote from National Prayer Day, however, it does sound like this teacher got a little zany in preaching the Christian background of America's Founders. When the school investigated some parental complaints, there were a handful of evangelical nutballs that called the school administrators to tell them to burn in hell. Yet somehow the writer of this article found a way to trace their foolish behavior back to George Bush.

Well, I'm sure he has a point somewhere, just as I'm sure Bush is to blame for the behavior of these peace-loving San Francisco protestors as well: