Folks in Kansas Need To Watch What They Say

A few years ago, Ari Fleischer, Bush's former press secretary, warned Americans that "they need to watch what they say, watch what they do." This professor apparently didn't get the message:

The Douglas County Sheriff's Department on Tuesday was investigating a case in which a professor whose planned course on creationism and intelligent design was canceled after he derided Christian conservatives said he was the victim of a roadside beating.

University of Kansas religious studies professor Paul Mirecki was treated at a hospital and released Monday.

Tuesday, Mirecki told KMBC by phone that he's finished talking to reporters. He said, "It's gotten out of hand with the media. Sorry, gotta go," and then hung up, KMBC's Micheal Mahoney reported.

He did tell the Lawrence Journal-World for a story Tuesday that two men who beat him were making references to the class that was to be offered for the first time this spring. Originally called "Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design, Creationism and other Religious Mythologies," the course was canceled last week at Mirecki's request.

The class was added after the Kansas Board of Education decided to include more criticism of evolution in science standards for elementary and secondary students.

Instead of deriding Christian conservatives, this professor should have kept his mouth shut. Does he think he lives in a free country or something?