Wendy Wright

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'''Wendy Wright''' is an especially willfully ignorant [[creationist]] who  was president of [[Concerned Women for America]]. Her advocacy was for "legislation and international policies that are beneficial to women and families."<ref name="concerned">Concerned Women for America, "Wendy Wright, President." http://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=2107</ref> Her job at the CWfA was "brief[ing] congressional and presidential staff on pro-family issues, and train[ing] grassroots activists."<ref name="concerned"></ref>

== Evolution denialism ==

One of Wendy Wright's most vocal arguments is to promote a Christian conservative creationist education in American schools. She denies that [[evolution]] is fact, and says it is filled with hoaxes and has no evidence to support it.

{{cquote|I think DNA helps to prove that each person is an individual created as distinct from one another.|4=Wendy Wright|5=From ''The Genius of Charles Darwin'' interview with [[Richard Dawkins]]}}

==Interview with Richard Dawkins==
In 2009, [[Richard Dawkins]] interviewed Wendy Wright at her office at the Concerned Women for America for his documentary, ''The Genius of Charles Darwin''. This is one of the most frustrating interviews Dawkins gave with evolution deniers - if not the most frustrating interview to watch in the history of the [[origins debate]]. Wright, while adopting a patronizing tone, argues that evolution is wrong with tired creationist canards, misconceptions, and inaccuracies (e.g., suggesting that Haeckel's drawings are still in textbooks today, that there are no [[transitional forms]], that evidence for evolution is nothing but hoaxes), but even after Dawkins corrects her misconceptions repeatedly, she continues to repeat the same claims and denies that there is any evidence that evolution is the means by which new species of lifeforms develop. Even when asked to look at examples of transitional forms in the form of casts of fossils in any respectable museum, she repeatedly states that she has 'been to the museums' and asserts that she has 'never seen the physical evidence'. Wright accuses Dawkins of personal attacks while employing [[ad hominem]] attacks against him, accusing him of being controlled by evil and deception.

She proposes that Christian morality results in a better environment (as opposed to a Darwinian society) and therefore a literal interpretation of the Bible must be true while modern scientific explanations must be false. Dawkins responds (on several accounts) that he would not want to live in a Darwinian society because of ruthlessness of such a system, largely to no effect. Wright talks to Dawkins as if she has answers that he doesn't, most strikingly on the subject in which Dawkins is an established expert. She argues that it shouldn't only be scientists doing science, but that even the uneducated should be empowered to debate scientific facts and flatly deny evidence. Wright claims that 'evolutionists' are 'oppressive' because 'they won't let other ideas through', presumably ideas that are not backed up by evidence. Wright's responses rely upon logical fallacies and subjectively induced neoromantic pathos claims to 'prove' that 'we should love each human being therefore the Bible is true'. The debate actually got so absurd that, in an attempt to make even the slightest dent in Wright's titanium-plated cranium, Richard Dawkins, the great crusader for reason and ''against'' religion and superstition, began trying to explain that Evolution itself is not ''per se'' incompatible with (Christian) faith!

==The sex-ed [[conspiracy]]==
In an appearance on [[Faux News]], Wright revealed the true agenda behind sex-ed classes:

{{cquote|In fact, they want to encourage [kids to choose to have sex] because they benefit when kids end up having sexually transmitted diseases, unintended pregnancies and then they lead them into having abortions, so you have to look at the financial motives behind those who are promoting comprehensive sex ed.<ref>[http://www.newshounds.us/2008/01/01/radical_conservative_claims_that_proponents_of_sex_education_want_kids_to_get_stds_in_order_to_advance_the_abortion_agenda.php Wright on Fox News]</ref>}}

== External links ==
* [https://youtu.be/-AS6rQtiEh8 The uncut Wendy Wright/Richard Dawkins interview] (from ''The Genius of Charles Darwin''). Watch at your own risk.

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