Pro-science candidate

Thanks to an email from Vic Hutchison, I came across this amazing statement by Joel Walker, a socially conservative Republican running for his local school board.

In Texas.

Walker's defense of the teaching of evolution in science classes is one of the best I've ever seen. He addresses the ID/creationist tactic of "teaching the controversy" with:

It is inappropriate to ask our high school students to sit in their judgment; we must first simply educate them as to what has been learned.

Read the whole thing here.