There is some room to Charles Barron’s left on social issues
1:12 pm • 28 November 2011
Gatemouth recently pointed me to a 2005 Newsday article (no link) where Councilman Charles Barron comes out in favor of teaching intelligent design in public schools:
City Councilman Charles Barron (D-Brooklyn) said the ruling was effectively denying the schools’ First Amendment rights to determine curriculum.
“I think both should be taught,” said Barron, chairman of the council’s Committee on Higher Education. “I don’t necessarily think you are teaching religion if you tell students that there is a different account of how this world started.”
Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford) responded similarly: “I believe school districts should have the right to teach intelligent design as part of American culture without saying it’s science,” he said.
This brings up an interesting dynamic in the race that also has Barron to the right of Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries and Congressman Ed Towns on gay rights.
This district probably contains one of the more socially conservative Democratic electorates in the state, but it’s still probably to one’s advantage to be as liberal as possible for a Democratic primary.
