OPEN AND SHUT CASE
This one seems even more obvious than Kitzmiller. Just how dumb do you have to be to win an election to a school board?
A rural high school teaching a religion-based alternative to evolution was sued Tuesday by a group of parents who said the class should be stopped because it violates the U.S. Constitution.
…An initial course description sent to parents in December said it would examine “evolution as a theory and will discuss the scientific, biological and Biblical aspects that suggest why Darwin’s philosophy is not rock solid.”
The El Tejon district’s Board of Trustees approved the course 3-2 with a revised syllabus in a Jan. 1 session, during which board members had to vote up or down on the entire winter session curriculum.
Classes started two days later with a class plan that relied solely on videos, not guest speakers.
The Washington, D.C.-based Americans United for Separation of Church and State said that with one exception the course “relies exclusively on videos that advocate religious perspectives and present religious theories as scientific ones.”
Calling it a philosophy class does not get around the Lemon test. ID will lose this one, too.
One Response to “OPEN AND SHUT CASE”
 Comment by Ulrike January 12th, 2006 at 2:31 pm |
You just have to know the secret handshake! |