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To: yoe
A packet for educators issued by the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) in conjunction with the NOVA program "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial" encourages teaching practices that are probably unconstitutional, a conservative organization stated on Tuesday.

"The NOVA/PBS teaching guide encourages the injection of religion into classroom teaching about evolution in a way that likely would violate current Supreme Court precedents about the First Amendment's Establishment Clause," said John West, vice president for public policy and legal affairs at the Discovery Institute, in a news release.

Surely, with all the lawyers on DI's staff, they could have rushed out and filed an injunction. Unless, of course, they thought they could get more mileage by whining and crying about how "persecuted" the are ...
LOL

88 posted on 11/13/2007 6:06:09 PM PST by dread78645 (Evolution. A doomed theory since 1859.)
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To: dread78645
Surely, with all the lawyers on DI's staff, they could have rushed out and filed an injunction. Unless, of course, they thought they could get more mileage by whining and crying about how "persecuted" the are ... LOL

Or they realized they didn't have a case.

90 posted on 11/13/2007 6:27:51 PM PST by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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