To the editor:

Due to the Kansas Board of Education’s science curriculum edict and the ensuing brouhaha, the more I hear of religion, the less religious I am. That’s not to say I’ve no faith and am not spiritual. Man, like it or not, is innately a spiritual being by nature.

But I am sick of the super-religious with their halos screwed on too tight, trying to force their views even into government (a theocracy), as well as into public education on all levels. Unlearned, narrow-minded folk do not force their own teaching standards that most surely suffocate real learning by threatening funding withdrawal or the redneck beating of one highly qualified, educated professor Kansas University is lucky to have.

Gimme a break from all these verbal attacks pro and con and the actual criminal assault. Life is for living, not getting mired in endless arguments about beliefs. Is this the year 2005 or the 1930s Hitler-thug Germany when one is forced to do/think as I do or else? In my long life, I cannot remember such goofy division as over the science and intelligent design mess today. The Kansas I know and love seems to be missing a cog or two. The State Board of Education can take credit for this hullabaloo.

Sue Hess,

Lawrence