GOP Taliban: No IMAX For You!

From my friend, Hugo Zoom, who gave me the heads up on skimble which cited the following:
No Such Thing As Volcanoes

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) -- IMAX theaters in several Southern cities have decided not to show a film on volcanoes out of concern that its references to evolution might offend those with fundamental religious beliefs.

"We've got to pick a film that's going to sell in our area. If it's not going to sell, we're not going to take it," said Lisa Buzzelli, director of an IMAX theater in Charleston that is not showing the movie. "Many people here believe in creationism, not evolution."

The film, "Volcanoes of the Deep Sea," makes a connection between human DNA and microbes inside undersea volcanoes.

Buzzelli doesn't rule out showing the movie in the future.

IMAX theaters in Texas, Georgia and the Carolinas have declined to show the film, said Pietro Serapiglia, who handles distribution for Stephen Low, the film's Montreal-based director and producer.

"I find it's only in the South," Serapiglia said.

America is so profoundly fucked it's not even funny. But since I've known it so long, it is funny. This is the type of over-the-top story that needs to be brought up around the ones who proclaim themselves "fiscal conservatives" -- the drinkin' & whorin' variety that seem embarassed by the fundies running their party. Hey, come to think of it, didn't deficits use to be those guys' major concern? Man, those were the days.