Box of Rocks, Meet Americans

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- What Justice Antonin Scalia calls the Kulturkampf, or culture war, continues to be fought in sweaty federal courtrooms across the United States away from the headlines and the television cameras.

It's difficult for people in Europe and elsewhere to grasp how visceral this war is in the United States. A Gallup poll released in March indicated more than half of Americans believe in creationism, that humans were fully formed in the Garden of Eden less than 10,000 years ago -- effectively brushing aside evolution, and for that matter, genetics, anthropology, geology, paleontology, archaeology and a host of other interwoven scientific disciplines. :cry:

To an outsider, the United States would seem to be a seriously divided country, particularly on religious issues.

Nowhere is the culture war more apparent than in battles over religious displays.

The latest skirmish was fought earlier this month in Denver, where a federal appeals court said crosses erected along Utah highways as memorials to fallen Highway Patrol officers were in violation of the First Amendment's ban on the establishment of religion. ...........(more)

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It starts out with the Creation Museum. Classic!

We've got just enough brain power to cause trouble.

Our country today.

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Bristol Palin on "Dancing with the Stars" brought to you by Cargill!

We are SO fucked.