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To: jwalsh07
Is this disclaimer unconstitutional?

In and of itself, no. When you insist on posting it in a high school science book, along with recommending a barely warmed over creationist text which a local church paid for, and than lying in court about it---yes, it is unconstitutional, it violates the 1st and 14th amendments. And intention does matter here: If the intention was to make an honest, if mistaken attempt to improve science teaching, it is merely flagrant incompetence. If, as turned out to be the case as a matter of judicial record, your intention was to divert students into reading an overtly creationist text, and you made that painfully obvious by committing perjury to hide the fact, then you are trying to divert public resources in support of a specific religeous creed. You violated the constitution, and committed perjury about it. It may well produce a ride in jail for the miscreants, intention is that important.

2,605 posted on 12/23/2005 5:46:48 PM PST by donh
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To: donh

We will find out what the appeals court thinks when the Eleventh Circuit rules on the trial judges holding in the Cobb County case. If I were you, I wouldn't bet the house that they put much weight on the religious motivations of the authors. They will examine the action and the text and decide that the trial judge was out to lunch. That's a prediction you can hold me to account for if you'd like.


2,616 posted on 12/23/2005 8:26:55 PM PST by jwalsh07
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