Factions and Fundamentalism

 BrooklynDodger remembers the old joke about law school:  Why bother studying, the answer is “the Bank always wins.”  To which the Dodger’s law student roommate replied, “Everybody knows that, the problem is, which bank?”

So now we have the sex ed curriculum for Montgomery County – not exactly backwoods country – being re-written by fundamentalist Christians.  Having given in to religious thugs, the school system has to figure out which thugs, and apparently has to decide on one or the other.

BrooklynDodger wonders where peer review comes into this process?
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Montgomery Sex-Ed Troubles Continue
Community Groups, School Board Scrap Over Advisory Panel Procedures
By Lori Aratani
Washington Post Staff WriterWednesday, October 12, 2005; Page B08
Two community organizations that sued the Montgomery County public school system over its sex education curriculum are embroiled in another dispute, this time over who gets to serve on a citizen advisory panel.
The groups had both argued that changes once approved by the school board showed insufficient respect for some parents' values. Now the board is at odds with the two groups over procedures for picking members of the panel that would advise on a new curriculum…