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What’s an example of something tyrannical they’ve done such that science is now a target?
by dd36 4y ago
What’s an example of something tyrannical they’ve done such that science is now a target?
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoEvolution is a tyranny to small minded people.
- COGlory 4y agoScience is not the target (maybe to this one freshman congressman, but not the greater legislative agenda). The row precipitated over a ballot initiative that gave Montanans the right to carry firearms on public property, including college campuses. The ballot initiative instructed the legislature to craft law outlining this. The legislature worked with the colleges for months coming up with a number of compromises in exchange for the university system not fighting the bill. After the bill was passed (remember, it was mandated by a direct public ballot initiative), the unelected Board of Regents sued to stop it on the grounds that they have complete authority over all policy on state campuses. The legislate argues that state law (and the state constitution gaurantees a right to bear arms) supercedes it. There have since been a number of minor skirmishes, while that main case is tied up in court. This is an attempt by the legislature to further erode the constitutional clause governing public education being seperately governed. Had the Board of Regents respected the ballot initiative, this likely would not be getting introduced, because the House leaders would have stopped it.
- dd36 4y agoSeems like they must sue if that’s the law? Otherwise they’re not independent as the law requires? Tyrannical seems like a stretch?