Jan 12 2007
Al Gore Gets a “Frosty” Reception in Federal Way
The school board in the south Seattle suburb of Federal Way (home, it should noted, of logging giant Weyerhaeuser) has restricted showings of An Inconvenient Truth, imposing requirements that it be balanced with an adequate opposing viewpoint and be shown only with the school principal and district superintendent’s approval.
The decision was apparently sparked by complaints from parents who said their child was taking the film as fact after viewing it at school. “Condoms don’t belong in school, and neither does Al Gore. He’s not a schoolteacher,” said Frosty Hardison, a parent of seven who believes the earth is 14,000 years old and doesn’t want the film shown at all. “The information that’s being presented is a very cockeyed view of what the truth is. The Bible says that in the end times everything will burn up, but that perspective isn’t in the DVD.”
Kind of hard to argue with that.
