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New Hampshire’s 2012 anti-evolution legislation (and the shocking thing a sponsor said) - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

New Hampshire’s 2012 anti-evolution legislation (and the shocking thing a sponsor said) - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:

New Hampshire’s 2012 anti-evolution legislation (and the shocking thing a sponsor said)

You can’t make up this stuff: The chief sponsor of a new anti-evolution piece of legislation in New Hampshire said that Darwin’s theory is “godless” and that such thinking is linked to Nazi atrocities, the 1999 Columbine shootings and more.

That analysis came from Republican Rep. Jerry Bergevin, who introduced one of two new anti-evolution bills (see below for full text of bills) in the Granite State’s legislature.

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