Posted on 01/13/2005 8:33:37 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
ATLANTA (AP) -- Federal judge rules the evolution disclaimer stickers placed inside Cobb County science textbooks are unconsitutional.
Why teach the beginning of life in a public school setting anyway? There were no eyewitnesses and anything proposed is based on faith, if Adam or Eve, or a slamander that showed up one day on the scene. Let kids google if they want to find out.
What does the sticker say?
If I were to dress in black robes and make decisions like
this I would be declared Delusional and the men in the long white coats would be ocming to take me away --Haa Ha
Ho ho-he hee/Thhis decision cannot be reconciled to the
S.Ct. decision that declared Secular Humanism could NOT
be established by governement YET when th egovernment schools militate students against Christianity and insist
the only religion taught be Darwinian Fraud then the Public Schools are the ones in violation of the Establishment Clause.Methinks da Judge needs a headcheck
Agreed. Coming up. Thanks.
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"Adopted by the school board, funded by the money of taxpayers, and inserted by school personnel, the sticker conveys an impermissible message of endorsement and tells some citizens that they are political outsiders while telling others they are political insiders," U.S. District Judge Clarence Cooper said in his 44-page ruling.I don't understand his wording. I will have to read the whole opinion to comment on this.
What gives this tyrannical judge the RIGHT to claim he is the "Master" who knows more than We, The People?
Time for this POS to go also.
the basis would be liberal contempt for Christianity.
This is not a case of Congress passing a law establishing a state religion, nor is it a case of Congress passing a law that denies someone the right to practice their religion.
The judge should be fired for inability to read the constitution.
I looked and I looked, and I just can't find that U.S. Constitution article about evolution.
Even if what this judge states is true, which it isn't, it still wouldn't be unconstitutional.
ATLANTA - A federal judge has ordered the removal of stickers placed in high school biology textbooks that call evolution "a theory, not a fact."
The judge ruled Thursday that the disclaimers put in the books by Cobb County school officials in 2002 were unconstitutional.
Six parents of students and the American Civil Liberties Union had challenged the stickers in court, arguing they violated the constitutional separation of church and state.
"Adopted by the school board, funded by the money of taxpayers, and inserted by school personnel, the sticker conveys an impermissible message of endorsement and tells some citizens that they are political outsiders while telling others they are political insiders," U.S. District Judge Clarence Cooper said in his 44-page ruling.
The case was heard over four days in federal court last November, where the school system defended the warning stickers as a show of tolerance, not religious activism as some parents claimed.
"The Cobb County school board is doing more than accommodating religion," Michael Manely, an attorney for the parents, argued during the trial. "They are promoting religious dogma to all students."
Lawyers for Cobb County disagreed, saying the school board had made a good-faith effort to address questions that inevitably arise during the teaching of evolution.
"Science and religion are related and they're not mutually exclusive," Linwood Gunn said. "This sticker was an effort to get past that conflict and to teach good science."
The schools placed the stickers after more than 2,000 parents complained the textbooks presented evolution as fact, without mentioning rival ideas about the beginnings of life.
The stickers read, "This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully and critically considered."
If a state wants to place a sticker that says "Pi = 3, FOREVER!!!" on all math textbooks, that's the state's prerogative, whether or not they pulled it out of Kings 7:23.
Idiocy is not unconstitutional.
"This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully and critically considered."
The sticker itself, to me is immaterial.
I've got a problem with the whole politicization that has happened, first at the hands of school board members, and now, at the hands of a federal judge.
As far as worrying about my kids knowing about God's hand in Creation is concerned, I'd suggest the school board stay out of parenting my children. My wife and I have made certain that they DO know.
Just get back to teaching "the three 'R's" and be done with it.
In and of itself? Of course not.
Like I said, the biggest complaint I've got is the waste of taxpayer money -- and being in Cobb County, I get to see that first hand.
It's an extra-Constitutional wall that's being built by the anti-American jurists in this country.
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