Wouldn’t you feel threatened if your entire Christian cosmological worldview was constantly being attacked by gay liberal college professors and their bearded, gay, Hitler-inspiring false idol Charles Darwin? Of course you would, goddamnit!

And if you’re Texas State Rep. Leo Berman, you might go one step further and sponsor a bill that would essentially allow for Masters of Science degrees to be handed out in such illuminating fields like Human-Dinosaur Relations, Shroud Analyzation, Ark Construction, Angel Grooming, and many more hyperbolic disciplines. To clarify: This isn’t the intelligent design stuff that was all the rage in our nation’s more atavistic communities a couple years back; it’s more your literal interpretation-type stuff, replete with a 10,000 year-old Earth and invisible talking aliens with the power of smite. If Berman is successful, he’ll usher in a new golden age of anti-learning in Texas, where schizophrenic young adults will grapple with the conflicting evidence brought to them by the Book of Leviticus and real, actual books used for “learning.”

All of which kind of got me curious about our Commonwealth’s fairy-tale related statutes. Lo and behold, we’ve got a real hum-dinger on the books — KRS 158.177, which had been providing an equal platform for 1st Century nonsense in our state since 1990. And here I was about to gloat…