Laurie Goodstein ‘Closing Arguments Made in Trial on Intelligent Design’, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2005, quoted on Australian Christian Lobby website (the ACL are creationist sympathisers):

[America's] first trial to test the constitutionality of teaching intelligent design as science ended Friday with a lawyer for the Dover school board pronouncing intelligent design ‘the next great paradigm shift in science.’

[So from now on you'll be able to earn a science doctorate by simply describing a complex problem and concluding with the following standard sentence: 'This is the way God wanted it.']

Warwick Marsh, Fatherhood Foundation, email, 6 Nov. 2005:

Our generation was also taken in by the lie … that men and women are the same except for the different body parts. The reverse is actually the case. Women are almost a new species.

[So that's why my wife keeps calling me a gorilla.]

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Filed in: Their Own Mouths

Having learnt nothing from their unsuccessful assault on The L Word in 2004, Peter and Jenny Stokes of the Salt Shakers (SS) organisation set their sights a little higher this year and took on the Desperate Housewives juggernaut.

With their customary flair for understatement the Stokes’ asked their readers:

What could be worse than Channel 7’s bunch of psychotic ‘Desperate Housewives’, all living in one street, doing their best to destroy the foundation of society – marriage and family? (SS E-News, 10 Feb. 2005)

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Filed in: Christian Right, Family Values