AN APOLOGY for the Kabbalah-Big Bang memo:

Anti-Jewish memo spurs apology

Legislature: Chisum says document he passed out doesn't reflect his views

12:00 AM CST on Saturday, February 17, 2007

By ROBERT T. GARRETT / The Dallas Morning News
rtgarrett@dallasnews.com

AUSTIN – The second most powerful member of the House has apologized to the Anti-Defamation League for giving colleagues a document that contains what the league called "outrageous anti-Semitic material."

House Appropriations Committee Chairman Warren Chisum, R-Pampa, sent a letter Friday to the North Texas-Oklahoma office of the league, which works to eradicate hatred of Jews and other minorities.

"I certainly meant no harm or disrespect for the religious views held by any person or group and for having done so, I am truly sorry," Mr. Chisum wrote.

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Mr. Chisum said "the document in question does not accurately reflect my views." He did not elaborate.

Nor did he mention the Atlanta-area Fair Education Foundation. Mr. Bridges' memo contained links to the foundation's Web site, which asserts that the universe revolves around the Earth. The site also depicts theories on evolution as a plot by "Jewish physicists" and Hollywood moguls to brainwash people.

The league had demanded that Mr. Chisum not only apologize but repudiate the material Mr. Bridges circulated.

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Amen to that.

You can see the memo itself in links to this article.