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But that's not what your letter said. Your letter said that the passage of the bill makes clear "folks like me aren't welcome in Tennessee anymore". Can't you see that is ridiculous hyperbole? How can we have civil debates in this country when a mild bit of meddling in the teaching of hot-button issues by a state legislature provokes that kind of rhetoric?

This isn't exactly the Scopes trial.

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Thanks twoodfin, and point taken. "Science education has no value in Tennessee" is of course hyperbole too. I tried to clarify these with the last paragraph ("I know that Tennesseans really do value science...") with debatable success.

I disagree that the bill is merely a "mild bit of meddling," but I'll remember your admonition about civil debate when writing missives in the future.

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