Texas' Director of Science Curriculum fired for criticizing Intelligent Design

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Gee, maybe it wasn't the politics of the speaker she was advertising, but the fact that she was advertising a political speaker at all using her official work email and title.

(not necessarily a direct reply to you, CR)
I didn't think it was politics, but that it was very much related to science, and to her occupation. It was a talk given by a _scientist_, regarding Intelligent Design, which is part of the curriculum. How is it NOT related to her job description to announce such events ?

Also, if we all agree the contents of that email are indeed what she sent, it seems very neutral to me, since all she added was a "FYI". She didn't support or endorse the talk, she only made people aware of it, which seems to me quite fair: there's 2 sides of the coin, people should be made aware of both, right ?
Where's the bad deed ?

(Note that I haven't touched yet the part whether ID belongs in a school or should be presented as science, we're just talking about whether she did something wrong or not).

There are some rumours that this has something to do with the fact that the Texas State Board of Education has recently got a creationist at the helm, but they're probably biased.

Also, more sources, since more papers have picked up the story, in case some of the ones I gave are still not satisfactory.

USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/news/educati...ationism_N.htm

Yahoo News: http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/200...uffpost/074940