October 8, 2007
D.C. Madam’s Most Famous John Porks Bill with Creationist… Well, Pork.
Senator David Vitter to earmark $100,000 for creationist group
United States Senator, a Republican from Louisiana, David Vitter has earmarked $100,000 for Louisiana Family Forum (LFF), a conservative creationist organization. Vitter put the earmark into the labor, health and education financing bill for fiscal year 2008. The bill specifies the Louisiana Family Forum received the money “to develop a plan to promote better science education.”
Vitter has close ties to the LFF through Dan Richey, the group’s grass-roots coordinator, who received $17,250 as a consultant in Vitter’s 2004 Senate race. Also Vitter’s campaign paid Beryl Amedee who is the education resource council chairwoman for the Louisiana Family Forum.
As part of the Louisiana Family Forum efforts to “combat” the teaching of evolution, the group included Kent Hovind’s “Battle Plan” on its website. Hovind, whose education from Patriot Bible University is widely considered to be a diploma mill, is currently serving a ten year prison sentence for tax evasion and obstructing federal agents. …
Filed under: Creationism, David Vitter, Radical Religious Right
