Of course -- once his peers had a chance to look at his work . The religion of the scientist is not in question. Putting religion in science classes is.
No Junior, the facts are the facts. The argument in the Dover lawsuit centers around the motivations of the school board, not the curricula. The statement they wrote is non religious in nature, period.
Those that support federal intervention on that basis would also have to support federal intervention in Lemaitre's case. His peers looked at his work and held that he was wrong because they were committed to a static universe. If Dover is the model, this would have prevented his theory from an airing in public schools until the scientists, who were evidently wrong in their criticisms, finally came to their senses and testified in a federal court of law that 'Yeah even though the guys a Catholic Monk we now think it's OK for Podunk High School to allow it past the front door.
Is that your idea of what federal courts and science should do?