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ACLU Demands and Dover Designs [School Board Conspiracy gave ACLU #1M]
American Enterprise Online ^ | June 2006 | Joe Manzari and Seth Cooper

Posted on 06/17/2006 12:19:17 PM PDT by DeweyCA

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To: metmom
Just to let every other little town know what they will face if they dare to take a stand for something.

Yeah, but what the board was "taking a stand" for was perjury.

I happen to believe that there should be deterrents for such things, to discourage others from thinking that it's okay to lie under oath. Maybe I'm old-fashioned that way.

61 posted on 06/18/2006 6:52:06 PM PDT by highball (Proud to announce the birth of little Highball, Junior - Feb. 7, 2006!)
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To: Sandy; PatrickHenry
...Napierski is saying that the board could have possibly saved the town a million bucks by changing the ID policy immediately and motioning to dismiss the case before it was decided...

If the board had followed its attorney's advice in the first place there would have been no suit.

62 posted on 06/18/2006 9:55:28 PM PDT by Virginia-American
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To: highball
The crime was lying on the stand. We know that because they got caught lying.

Yes, lying on the stand is a crime, but that's not what the lawsuit was all about. If the ACLU wasn't looking to use the power of the judiciary to force on unwilling people their ideals and agenda, then there wouldn't have been a lawsuit in the first place.

How is what's taught in school *Constitutional* to begin with? There's nothing in the Constitution that determines course curriculum. As a matter of fact, what is Constitutional about the public school system? Forcing someone's kids to go somewhere to be educated (now indoctrinated)or the better part of the day? Forced paying of taxes to support a corrupt, generally ineffective institution, with the threat of legal penalties if the taxpayers don't comply? Talk about *taxation without representation*.

63 posted on 06/19/2006 5:23:23 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom
If the ACLU wasn't looking to use the power of the judiciary to force on unwilling people their ideals and agenda, then there wouldn't have been a lawsuit in the first place.

Sorry, mom. You've got it backwards.

The Thomas More Law Center was the one looking to force its ideology.

They shopped around, looking for a school board willing to implement a curriculum guaranteed to provoke a court challenge. Then, when they got what they wanted, they specifically asked the judge to rule on their ideology, not dreaming that a conservative judge would put politics aside and actually follow the law.

Your beef oughtn't be with the ACLU (strange as that sounds!). Like the broken clock, they were right on this one.

Your beef really ought to be with the ones "looking to use the power of the judiciary to force on unwilling people their ideals and agenda" - the Thomas More Law Center.

64 posted on 06/19/2006 7:19:31 AM PDT by highball (Proud to announce the birth of little Highball, Junior - Feb. 7, 2006!)
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To: highball
Can we say Scopes Trials? The ACLU has been trying to force evolution into the schools for years and creation out. People want it back in. What's wrong with bringing back what the people who are sending THEIR kids to schools that THEIR tax dollars are paying for? Creation obviously did not have a deleterious effect on the progress of all science that was performed before ToE was introduced. If creation is so bad for science, then we'd better throw out all science before Darwin.

It stated: “Students will be made aware of gaps/problems in Darwin’s Theory and of other theories of evolution including, but not limited to, intelligent design. Note: Origins of the life will not be taught.” The policy also required school administrators to read to students a statement mentioning problems with Darwin's theory and refers students to school library textbooks discussing the theory of intelligent design.

So what's so un-Constitutional about that statement? Are kids not to be taught that there are problems with TOE or are they to be taught that there are none? Are schools teaching kids to blindly accept anything that comes down the pike without thinking for themselves? Teaching of creation along with evolution doesn't seem to have hurt the education of all the kids in private Christian schools or all the homeschoolers who teach it.

65 posted on 06/19/2006 7:34:09 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: highball
I'm always disappointed at the number of Freepers who are willing to excuse, or overlook, lying. Just so long as the lies are in the service of a political goal you like, right?

Yo qiero Taqiyya Bell...

66 posted on 06/19/2006 9:13:21 AM PDT by LibertarianSchmoe ("...yeah, but, that's different!" - mating call of the North American Ten-Toed Hypocrite)
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To: LibertarianSchmoe

I know, brother. I know.

Pathetic, isn't it?


67 posted on 06/19/2006 9:18:32 AM PDT by highball (Proud to announce the birth of little Highball, Junior - Feb. 7, 2006!)
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To: metmom

You're avoiding the point, mom. It was Thomas More that tried to use the courts.

The taxpayers spoke - they don't want these nuts in power. They threw the board out as soon as they had the chance. It wasn't about what the taxpayers want, it was about a small minority trying to sneak their religion into the schools, and them being willing to lie to do it.


68 posted on 06/19/2006 9:20:29 AM PDT by highball (Proud to announce the birth of little Highball, Junior - Feb. 7, 2006!)
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To: DeweyCA
Both groups used the calamitous situation in the Dover Area School District to launch a comprehensive attack against scientists, philosophers, academics, and institutions throughout the nation that advocate the emerging scientific theory of intelligent design.

There is no emerging scientific theory of intelligent design. If there was, they could've shown some evidence at trial.

69 posted on 06/19/2006 9:29:09 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: metmom
...The ACLU has been trying to force evolution into the schools for years ...

so have all scientists, and, if I may say so, all decent people.

What's wrong with bringing back what the people who are sending THEIR kids to schools that THEIR tax dollars are paying for?

Quite a bit. The law says that science has to be taught. The average voter is unlikely to know science from pseudoscience. Hence, the schools need to consult with scientists to determinethe curriculum.

Creation obviously did not have a deleterious effect on the progress of all science that was performed before ToE was introduced

Keep the timeline in mind. ToE was accepted by biologists no later than the 1880s, and was part of the college curriculum then. It then filtered down into the secondary school curriculum. Tennessee and Scopes were an attempt, decades later, to stop something that had already happened. ToE has been the curriculum since then. So really, except for the transitional period in the late 1800s - early 1900s, creationism has not bee taught since Darwin's theory was accepted by biolgists.

Teaching of creation along with evolution doesn't seem to have hurt the education of all the kids in private Christian schools or all the homeschoolers who teach it.

Two points: 1) If the along with evo is forgotten, it does make getting into college harder. 2) Most Christian schools are Catholic, and they teach ToE.

70 posted on 06/19/2006 1:36:53 PM PDT by Virginia-American
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To: Virginia-American
so have all scientists, and, if I may say so, all decent people.

...all decent people? All? How do you know there aren't decent people who who don't want evolution forced on their kids in public schools? And those who don't want evolution forced on the kids aren't decent people?

Most Christian schools are Catholic, and they teach ToE.

*Christian* schools are not necessarily *Catholic* schools. I've never heard the terms used interchangably and I've lived in two heavily Catholic areas.

The curriculum we used for homeschooling was Abeka, which is widely used by many non-Catholic Christian schools and many homeschoolers, and it does teach evolution. When my daughter took a NYS regents Bio exam, she got an 88% on the evolution section of the exam. Christian schools that use Abeka are teaching both and apparently doing a good enough job to pass a NY regents exam. So much for how the teaching of creation is hurting a child's science education.

If the along with evo is forgotten, it does make getting into college harder.

????

The average voter is unlikely to know science from pseudoscience. Hence, the schools need to consult with scientists to determinethe curriculum.

Yes, it gets back to the thinking that the ignorant masses need someone who *knows better* than them what is best for them, to make decisions for them, all for their own good of course, because they are incapable of knowing that, too.

71 posted on 06/19/2006 3:34:47 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom
...How do you know there aren't decent people who who don't want evolution forced on their kids in public schools? And those who don't want evolution forced on the kids aren't decent people? ...

No, they're not. Deliberately hiding science from children is not a decent act. If they're "teaching" creationism and evo, it's possible to do that in a responsible manner, I guess, but not if it involves lying about the science or the status of evo within science; for example "tteaching the conroversy", when in fact there is no scientific controversy, is lying.

*Christian* schools are not necessarily *Catholic* schools...

Parochial schools are the largest class of Christian schools. I don't know anything about Abeka.

If the along with evo is forgotten, it does make getting into college harder.
????

Oops, "along with evo" should have been quoted.

Yes, it gets back to the thinking that the ignorant masses need someone who *knows better* than them what is best for them, to make decisions for them, all for their own good of course, because they are incapable of knowing that, too.

That's not what I said. What I said was that if you want a decent curriculum on any subject, you consult experts on that subject. Evo is not an exception. I didn't say that the masses can't learn science, just that most of them haven't. Thus, the need for experts.

72 posted on 06/19/2006 7:32:27 PM PDT by Virginia-American
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To: Virginia-American
What I said was that if you want a decent curriculum on any subject, you consult experts on that subject. Evo is not an exception. I didn't say that the masses can't learn science, just that most of them haven't. Thus, the need for experts.

I've long suspected that some of the objection to the ToE stems from an anti-elitism feeling. "What makes them so good, to know so much?"

73 posted on 06/20/2006 6:35:35 AM PDT by highball (Proud to announce the birth of little Highball, Junior - Feb. 7, 2006!)
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