Thor's Day: Straight from the pit of hell

When we thought it just couldn't get any better, the Associated Press came out with a small story from Athens, Georgia, that

10th Congressional District Republican candidate Rep. Paul Broun said in videotaped remarks that evolution, embryology and the Big Bang theory are "lies straight from the pit of hell" meant to convince people that they do not need a savior.

    Athens is a college town—the University of Georgia, in fact—so I asked a friend in administration there how someone like Broun could possibly have been elected, and even be running for re-election now "unopposed by Democrats" [according to the article]?
    My friend replied:

The Georgia legislature has managed to gerrymander this area in such a way as to get the likes of Paul Broun elected, because, as you might imagine, our county is a speck of blue in a sea of red. Broun's father, Paul Broun, Sr. was a long-time, well-respected state legislator who died before his son got into politics, but the son is cut from a different cloth. It's embarrassing!

But it gets even better than that. Again according to the article, Broun (who is a "medical doctor") "sits on the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology" [emphasis mine]. The Committee's webpage does list Broun, welcomed, one must suppose, by his fellow House Republicans—the ones, anyway, who prefer religious dogma to scientific fact.
    The article says that the video (of Paul Broun's "testimony") was posted on the website of the Liberty Baptist Church, where Broun was speaking. We feel a rash coming on at the thought of putting the iframe code right here on Moristotle; you'll have to go to the church's website, if you can't get enough of this sort of thing.

All we're able to say is that

In the heart of the country, where everything's swell,
And upstanding, God-fearing parents still tell
    Their children to kneel low and give praise
    To God for making All Things in six days,
They elect Congressmen who share their view of hell.