[dsc]

"from, for example, mainstream newpapapers, of course."

Don't listen to Limbaugh, eh? They had a lot of fun with that last week.

Mainstream newspapers, indeed. (Guffaw)

"You saw what, exactly--the teaching of evolutionary theory, perhaps?"

The ridiculing of Christianity and proselytizing of Atheism.

"Would that be zealous home-school creationist-run UNEWS and BBSs back in the 80s?"

Hardly.

"I'd expect that to be cause for a teacher to be hauled before the schoolboard, and the accreditation committees, myself. But maybe that's just me."

Yeah, it's just you. As long as the fiction that Atheism is not a religion is maintained, you can proselytize it till the cows come home without running afoul of today's PC distortion of the First Amendment.

[donh]

"I'd expect that to be cause for a teacher to be hauled before the schoolboard, and the accreditation committees, myself. But maybe that's just me."

Yeah, it's just you. As long as the fiction that Atheism is not a religion is maintained, you can proselytize it till the cows come home without running afoul of today's PC distortion of the First Amendment.

I asked for evidence, you offered none. It is plainly an overwrought fantasy that masses of teachers taught athiesm, at any time, anywhere. Teaching evolutionary theory does not qualify, your unsupported opinion to the contrary notwithstanding.