Have a Merry Christmas!!
Posted on 12/15/2005 9:12:43 AM PST by Lurking Libertarian
The fight over how public schools should teach the theory of evolution is usually expected to fall along familiar battle lines.
Thus, at the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today, lawyers for the liberal American Civil Liberties Union will argue that school board members from conservative Cobb County violated the Constitution when they ordered that stickers questioning evolution's validity be placed in high school biology books.
But this case defies simple labels for Georgia State University law professor L. Lynn Hogue, who has led the conservative Southeastern Legal Foundation, worked for the disbarment of President Clinton and proposed a Georgia law that would allow the display of the Ten Commandments in government buildings.
Hogue signed on to an amicus brief filed on behalf of Georgia Citizens for Integrity in Science Education, which supports the ACLU side of the case.
"I'm sympathetic with their cause," said Hogue, who also has pushed for gay marriage bans, fought Atlanta's domestic partnership ordinance and battled the University of Georgia's affirmative action program.
"From my perspective as a conservative, I think science education is important," he added. "And I'm not religiously sympathetic to anti-evolutionists, who I think are lunatics."
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I object to the term "Supernaturalist". Only God is natural. Everything else is a creation.
It's not. We can usually tell whether religion is primary or secondary for a person. Either way, the person does not see things the same as the other--cannot. It often happens that religion is secondary for a younger person and gradually becomes primary just as young people often start out liberal and gradually become conservative. This person may be midway in transition, somewhere in the midlife crisis.
Have a Merry Christmas!!
That's the ramp to the slaughterhouse where they make dino-burgers, right? ;)
enough to last about 40 days
One of my favorite Far Side cartoons shows pairs of animals (giraffes, zebras, etc.) crashing through the gate at Cape Kennedy and heading straight for a rocket that's about to take off into space. The security guard at the gate is on the phone, shouting, "I don't know what's going down, sir, but it must be huge!"
Amazing coincidence :)
I always wondered what happened to the unicorns.
I agree, the professor shouldn't insult and degrade the mentally ill.
LOL!
The Wells-Fargo wagon?
Or is it that *There's a coach coming in...*
Or perhaps we are expecting *a polyphase orogeny consisting of many disparate pulses of deformation*. I much prefer a universal discontinuity as a mark of deluvium. Gould's punctuated equilibrium just doesnt have any jazz chops.
That Jack Chick, what a riot!
You Communist Nazi DUer!
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