Posted on 12/25/2005 4:18:54 PM PST by ncountylee
HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 25 (UPI) -- Several states including Pennsylvania are considering legislation to encourage free debate and protect students against discrimination for political views.
David Horowitz, president of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, has been lobbying more than a dozen state legislatures to pass an "Academic Bill of Rights, reported the New York Times Sunday.
Horowitz says his campaign for intellectual diversity is nonpartisan, but the campaign appears to be fueled by studies that show the number of Democratic professors is generally much larger than the number of Republicans -- and by stories of students, mostly Republicans, who say they have experienced discrimination because of their political views.
In Pennsylvania, lawmakers have held hearings on whether the political climate at its 18 state-run colleges requires legislation to ban bias.
Eleven states are considering the measure or something similar, while three states have rejected comparable efforts.
hopefully the right not to be indoctrinated with Darwinism.
Nope. They should learn about trees with magical fruit, talking snakes, virgin births, etc. Better yet, how about teaching them ID? That'll will prepare them for life.
Surpassed by the percentage of Democratic journalists to Republican journalists.
And that is only surpassed by the number of dead Democrats that continue to vote.
One note Charlism is counter-productive here
Nice thing to post on Christmas, ya schmuck!
Fight the big battles first. There is a WHOLE lot more important things at stake here than creationism.
You're right. There should be nothing taught in school about morality and ethics. That would really prepare kids for life. I have news for you: our morality is based on the Judeo-Christian morality found in the Bible.
They should learn about trees with magical fruit
Magical fruit uh? You find one apple mentioned in the Bible and I'll eat the book. You are the fruit.
I hope a couple of states pass it and that colleges in those states receive a comparable advantage in recruiting students. That'll force the rest of the colleges to lobby their states to pass the same Bill of Rights.
A clymer makes an attack on Darwin...and a response to it draws a hissy fit from you. Nice petticoat defense. Politics isn't the last refuge of the scoundrel (close). Religion is the last refuge.
BTW, what are you doing posting today? Shouldn't you be celebrating Dies Natalis Invicti Solis?
By attacking Christianity on Christmas, you are no better than the liberal rats.
I agree. Colleges should teach both major theories of the origin of life.
It's called fair & full inquiry.
Confidentially... I thought he was nuts.
As a matter of fact, I've felt for a long time that the single best thing would be to make tuition payable after the semester, with the student being able to refuse payment in return for no credit. If boring old Professor Jones starts costing the college money, it will definitely get their attention.
"As the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Musselmen; and as the said States never have entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mehomitan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries." - U.S. Treaty with Tripoli (1797).
The clymer who attacked evolution started this. To not expect a response would be to expect a miracle. Better pray for one. Merry Dies Natalis Invicti Solis.
I have no problems with ID being taught in a religion class in college. However, it is not, nor can it ever be, a science.
That's like when Bush calls Islam a religion of peace. It's called diplomacy.
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