Bobby Jindal in The Huffington Post
On Abortion:
Human life amendment: define "person" from conception
On many science and education issues, Jindal tries to straddle the partisan divide. He favors a human life amendment to define the legal existence of a "person" at the moment of conception, but he is also a strong advocate for the cheap and
wide distribution of contraceptives. He refused to criticize his "friend" Phil Robertson, the Duck Dynast who said the other day that a Bible-based monogamous marriage of man and woman is the best way to end diseases like AIDS.
Source: Huffington Post 2014 coverage of 2016 presidential hopefuls
Sep 16, 2014
On Education:
Teach kids the best science; but no comment on evolution
Like the experienced tennis player he is, Jindal repeatedly batted away questions about whether he believes the theory of evolution explains the existence of complex life forms on Earth. Pressed for his personal view, Jindal--who earned a specialized
biology degree in an elite pre-med program at Brown University--declined to give one. He said only that "as a parent I want my children taught the best science." He didn't say what that "science" was.
Source: Huffington Post 2014 coverage of 2016 presidential hopefuls
Sep 16, 2014
On Education:
Local control instead of Common Core
After initially supporting the Common Core attempt to write national education standards, the governor now opposes the project.Jindal takes the latter stance in the name of greater "local control" of
education--which would presumably allow Louisiana schools to teach his version of acceptable "science."
Source: Huffington Post 2014 coverage of 2016 presidential hopefuls
Sep 16, 2014
On Energy & Oil:
The left loves energy to be expensive and scarce
Jindal conceded that human activity has something to do with climate change, but declined to agree that there is now widespread scientific consensus on the severity and urgency of the problem.Because of what he views as a lack of consensus on
the gravity of the environmental threat, Jindal felt free to try to turn the science argument against the Obama administration. The president, the Environmental Protection Agency and other agencies are "science deniers," he argued, because
they impose limits on carbon dioxide and other pollutants from "job-creating" businesses without really knowing how well those restrictions work.
He accused the administration of being on the wrong side of the faith divide in this
area. "The left loves energy to be expensive and scarce," he said. "It's almost a religious approach." Jindal has a detailed energy plan full of specific, thoughtful (and largely deregulatory) proposals.
Source: Huffington Post 2014 coverage of 2016 presidential hopefuls
Sep 16, 2014
On Health Care:
Ebola isn't the last epidemic; it's just a harbinger
Speaking about the international epidemic threat, Jindal warned that the Ebola virus was a harbinger. "It's not the last potential epidemic in Africa," said
Jindal, a former administrator of medical services at the state and federal levels.
Source: Huffington Post 2014 coverage of 2016 presidential hopefuls
Sep 16, 2014
On Principles & Values:
OpEd: Appeals to both Ivy League-coasts and Bible Belt
America needs a leader to bridge the widening gulf between faith and science, and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a devout Roman Catholic with Ivy League-level science training, thinks he can be that person.As a studious man of immigrant background
with the kind of credentials admired by coastal intellectual meritocrats--Brown, Oxford and McKinsey & Company--the Republican governor, at least on paper, has a chance to appeal to the middle, should he run for president in 2016.
He also has an impressive record as a government bureaucrat and administrator, both in Washington and in Baton Rouge.
Yet given his own deep faith and his roots in the Bible Belt, Jindal's early focus will be on wooing evangelical Christians
and others on the cultural right.
If he can solve this Rubik's Cube of religious belief and scientific trust, he may not only do the country a favor; he might reach the White House.
Source: Huffington Post 2014 coverage of 2016 presidential hopefuls
Sep 16, 2014
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