Yeah, that's one of the things bothering me about this case too. If the Thomas More folks were looking for a test case, this one sure wasn't it. The Dover Board's actions only have to fail a single prong of the Lemon test, and it's obvious that they're going to fail 1 and 2, with a healthy suggestion that they'll fail prong 3 as well.
You know what I really don't understand though? Why on earth any religious person would want to place religious doctrine in the government arena to begin with. I really, really don't get that at all. I mean, just picture this scenario....they win, and suddenly ID and then creationism become part of public school curriculum. Suddenly, you have government actors deciding the proper way to teach religious doctrine. Do the creationist advocates really think this is a good idea? Our schools can barely teach English properly, and these folks want them to teach their children proper religious doctrine?
You bring up a good point. Many Christians see this as the beach head needed to take back schools from a secular educational cirriculum. They don't see your logic in that if the schools mess up regular subjects, how badly will they mess up the religious concepts they want to introduce?
After quite a bit of time on creationist threads, I've concluded that many creationists don't think.
Our schools can barely teach English properly, and these folks want them to teach their children proper religious doctrine?
Which demonstrates my point about creationists not thinking. Not only would the public schools teach religious doctrine badly, but Christians would never agree on what the proper religious doctrine to teach. Since there are probably 1000+ Christian denominations, many which disagree vehemently on doctrine, it would be impossible for public schools to teach religion without some other Christian objecting.
Tyranny is always appealing to those who would be tryants.