Tulsa Spelled Backwards is A Slut

Stuff like this makes me throw up a little. It also reinforces my strongly held belief that I could never live in a Red (short for REtarDed) state. So, some guy, coincidentally named "Hicks," got a bug up his sizeable butt about the fact that the Tulsa Zoo had a statue of the Hindu deity Ganesh outside the elephant display. Why the holy hell the Tulsa Zoo would have a Ganesh statue is beyond my ability to comprehend, but, that's beside the point. Hicks bitched up a storm, and now:

The Tulsa Park and Recreation Board voted 3-1 Tuesday in favor of a display depicting the account in Genesis, the first book of the Bible, that God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh.

The vote came after more than two hours of public comment from a standing-room-only crowd.

Zoo employees, religious leaders and others spoke in opposition, saying religion shouldn't be part of the taxpayer-funded scientific institution.

But those who favored the creationist exhibit, including Mayor Bill LaFortune, argued that the zoo already displayed religious items, including the statue of the Hindu god, Ganesh, outside the elephant exhibit and a marble globe inscribed with an American Indian saying, "The earth is our mother. The sky is our father."

What does Ganesh or a Native American saying have to do with the creation of the planet and the animals therein, you might ask? Well, nothing, other than the fact that merely because they are religious items, they open the door for bible-thumping Hicks (big "H" and little "h") to insert religious creationism bullshit into an environment (the zoo) where someone might actually learn a little bit about science. God forbid that somebody should be exposed to science or indisputable facts about life and nature and the world around us; we'd better get a creationism display up as soon as possible to counteract the truth! Hell, why not just put all the animals together in a fucking ark for 40 days and 40 nights and see what happens? I’m sure some of them will probably survive. Or maybe someone can just sail the ark to another state with fewer complete idiots.