[TheCrusader]

"It does me no injury,'' said Thomas Jefferson, "for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."

Jefferson seems to have forgotten, at least for an isntant, that he has a soul to worry about. But he didn't forget on this instance:

"Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern, which have come under my observation, none appear to me so pure as that of Jesus." (Thomas Jefferson, Letter to William Canby, 1813).

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"But it is injurious, and unneighborly, when zealots try to compel public education to infuse theism into scientific education."

It's too bad the lame author of this article didn't bother to read American history a little more. Practically all through early American history Bible verses and Christian themes of morals and values were taught in public schools. It was actually scientists and liberal zealots who managed to supplant traditional Christian teachings in public schools with their own various theories, in particular their notions on the origin of man.

[bahblahbah]

The government school system was started by a unitarian as a counter against the protestant schools. I wish parents who actually cared about exactly what their children were taught would take the initiative and group together and start their own schools. If the republican party wants to get rid of the Darwin issue, they need to privatize education. I don't see why it can't be done in the majority red states.

[tortoise]

It's too bad the lame author of this article didn't bother to read American history a little more. Practically all through early American history Bible verses and Christian themes of morals and values were taught in public schools.

Nonsense. Perhaps you should "bother to read American history a little more". Government schools are an invention of the latter part of the 19th century, as a component of the Progressive movement. Public education was not universal in the United States until 1920.