re: #877 zeebeach

I guess maybe the fact that SC elected Karen Floyd to lead the GOP now means that SC must be ostracized. And LA also, since they elected Bobby Jindal.

Look, I don’t think creationism should be presented in science class, but I do understand why the majority of voters in some states want it to be presented “side by side” with evolution. My point is that our young people will be able to figure out what they believe without our limiting what they’re exposed to, in or out of science classes.

It’s a matter of a double violation of the 1st Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America (the very first Amendment in our Bill of Rights); teaching creationism in public school science class violates the Establishment Clause by respecting the creation dogmas of some religions over others, and violates the Free Exercise Clause by teaching some kids another religion’s creationist dogmas against their parents’ wills and in contradiction to their own personal religious faiths.

The 14th Amendment applies the federal prohibitions found in the Bill of Rights to the states.

The only way to resolve these double violations would be to teach EVERY religion’s creation dogmas in public school science class. But then it wouldn’t be science class any longer; it would be comparative religion class.

Religious dogmas do not belong in public school science class; only empirical science belongs there. PERIOD. No state should allow its public education system to be co-opted and subverted into a madrassa vehicle for the proselytization of other peoples’ kids into particular sectarian religious dogmas. Nor, legally and constitutionally, can it do so.