Touchy much?

Some families in a Sedalia, Missouri school district are upset that human evolution was on their band shirts reports KMOV.

T-shirts promoting the Smith-Cotton High School band's fall program have been recalled because of concerns about the shirt's evolution theme.

Assistant superintendent Brad Pollitt said parents complained to him after the band marched in the Missouri State Fair parade. Though the shirts don't violate the school's dress code, Pollitt noted that the district is required by law to remain neutral on religion.

"If the shirts had said 'Brass Resurrections' and had a picture of Jesus on the cross, we would have done the same thing," Pollitt said.

Sorry Pollitt, those things are not equivalent. A Jesus pic would be an explicit statement by a public school's band about religion. Unconstitutional. Also, it would be lame. A depiction of human evolution is not a statement about religion. There is no resurrection or denial of a resurrection in it nor about any other religious matter. Only people who are weak in their faiths can find such a thing worthy of removal.

We continue on:

Designed with the help of band director Jordan Summers and assistant director Brian Kloppenburg, the light gray shirts feature an image of a monkey progressing through various stages of evolution until eventually becoming a human. Each figure holds a brass instrument that also evolves, illustrating the theme "Brass Evolutions."

OK. So brass instruments evolved. So did humans. These are facts people that are easily accessible in the modern technocratic literate state. How cool (well...and utterly dorky) that a teacher put these things together on a shirt. Fun stuff if you ask me even if totally wankalicious and geeky. But the dude's a band geek. Props. And way to get the students involved.

But no. Uptight fundamentalists just can't handle it. Weak.