Hawaiian traditionalists against the Thirty Meter Telescope

[Derec]

Hawaii Supreme Court (all five justices are Democratic nominees) has handed a victory to the creationist kooks:
Hawaiian court revokes permit for planned mega-telescope
The decision is luckily not a final rejection of the project, but it is a worrisome development, especially given the ideological makeup of the court.

 

[Metaphor]

Surprise, surprise - religion once again reverses the arrow of morality, and declares their wrongdoing to be a moral imperative

One sees the same behaviour with NIMBYs and other meddlers. They too want the right to dictate to other people how they should use their own property. And lord help you if your buy-to-tear-down gets heritage protection -- we simply must preserve this particular example of 1960s slumshack hovels because they're a prime example of terribly inefficient use of land, deplorable energy efficiency, and horrible design.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Hawaii Supreme Court (all five justices are Democratic nominees) has handed a victory to the creationist kooks:

But that's okay, because they're not Christain Creationists.

Too bad no one's suffered a vision of Jesus on the site. One good Jesus face in a stain on the rocks and it'll be bulldozed by nightfall.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

I think that we should say we saw an image of Jesus on a tortilla on that mountain and try to get it declared as a Christian holy site just to piss these idiots off.

 

[dismal]

Any god worthy of the name ought to be able to block a telescope on its own. Crisp it with a lightning bolt. Tumble it with an earthquake. Melt it with boiling hot magma from a volcano.

Of course, we may be dealing with the sort of god that is blocking it by use of divine powers of persuasion over state supreme court justices.