The Next To Last Refuge Of The Incompetent - Taking Christian values into the Twilight Zone

It's hard to believe that this didn't appear as satire on the Onion or Objective Ministries, but it's real. Apparently Christian parents are upset about a piece of whimsical playground sculpture at an UC Berkeley playground loosely modeled after the structure of DNA.

"My daughter suggested that it was funny," said John Copeland, whose 7-year-old daughter attends summer camp there. "She shouldn't be talking to me about this. Now I'm forced to explain genetics to her, and why the Bible doesn't say anything about it."

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Jenny Garrotte, Claremont Park PTA president, said she found it distasteful and verging on obscene, and e-mailed parents Wednesday morning, asking them to file complaints with Pegro and with Alameda County Code Enforcement.

"Everybody is entitled to their own opinion regarding what art is," said Garrotte. "If this piece weren't visible to passersby and available for children to play on, I would not have a problem with it."

Full blog post by Bora Zivkovic over at ScienceBlogs: http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/200...