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I've been looking around the website of the Florida Legislature to find this thing. This link leads to the current bill. You need to click on "Bill Text: Original Filed Version" and that takes you do it. The bill is in pdf format:
House bill, sponsored by Baxley, referred to the House Choice and Innovation Committee
81 posted on 03/24/2005 6:44:40 AM PST by PatrickHenry (<-- Click on my name. The List-O-Links for evolution threads is at my freeper homepage.)
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I've read the bill. It's obviously subject to revision, but right now it's just a general statement about academic freedom. Nothing specificially about evolution or creationism. Anyone can spin anyting, of course, so I can easily imagine some wild-eyed UFO nut disrupting a class and then -- when he's tossed out -- howling about how his "rights" have been infringed.

For example, a young-earth creationist, or a follower of any other pseudo-science, might make something of this:

(6) Faculty and instructors have a right to academic freedom in the classroom in discussing their subjects, but they should make their students aware of serious scholarly viewpoints other than their own and should encourage intellectual honesty, civil debate, and critical analysis of ideas in the pursuit of knowledge and truth.

83 posted on 03/24/2005 6:53:33 AM PST by PatrickHenry (<-- Click on my name. The List-O-Links for evolution threads is at my freeper homepage.)
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