Joan Farr Heffington was a gubernatorial candidate in Kansas
in 2010, and she managed to pull a rather scary amount of votes,
though she was of course without a chance of actually winning (that honor,
though, went to Sam Brownback, who is hardly much better).
Heffington’s platform was unapologetically dominionist and
explicitly theocratic. For instance, she required that a Biblical and
Constitutional reason exist for the passage of any new laws, and she advocated
“Allow[ing] teaching of Christianity vs. evolution in schools” – at least she didn’t bother to try to hide her advocacy for teaching Biblical
creationism behind any deceptive “Teach the Controversy” language. Nor did she bother to try to display even a modicum of understanding
of evolution, but that is less surprising.
Diagnosis: Taliban fundie; has probably crept back into
whatever hole she emerged from, but the threat to civilization is definitely maintained
by the large number of people who would actually vote for her.
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