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To: puroresu
It applies to public schools. However, I'm opposed to the entire No Child Left Behind Act, including that amendment.

But you only volunteer a condemnation of federal intervention in education when evos are doing it.

I just get tired of the constant running to judges, the silly arguments that giving a few minutes of class time to ID constitutes a "war against science", and the patently absurd assertion that a sticker on a textbook suggesting that kids study evolution with an open mind constitutes a violation of the United States Constitution.

If creationists weren't wedded to wedge strategies, evos wouldn't be so inclined to chopping off the end of the wedge before it gets any purchase.

467 posted on 04/19/2006 8:27:14 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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To: Right Wing Professor

See below! :-)


469 posted on 04/19/2006 8:28:36 PM PDT by puroresu (Conservatism is an observation; Liberalism is an ideology)
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To: Right Wing Professor
If creationists weren't wedded to wedge strategies, evos wouldn't be so inclined to chopping off the end of the wedge before it gets any purchase.

It should be noted that it was the fundie-dominated Dover School Board, and their out-of-town "legal advisors" at the Thomas More Law Center, who were spoiling to gen up a test case on ID to get into Federal Court, NOT the pro-evos side. In fact, the TMLC had been "shopping" for a suitably ignorant, foolish, and ripe school board for just such a case for more than year before they landed the Dover Board.

It is further worthy of note that the fundie-dominated Dover School Board IGNORED the advice of the the Board's solicitor, who warned them specifically that if they adopted the new "ID policy" it would likely end up in court, and that they would likely lose.

In short, it wasn't the Evos who were itching for litigation......

473 posted on 04/19/2006 8:35:19 PM PDT by longshadow (FReeper #405, entering his ninth year of ignoring nitwits, nutcases, and recycled newbies)
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