No it isn't. It's still against the law. And he didn't inject his religion into his work. He allowed the Meyer paper to be peer-reviewed and published. The poor reflection you mention was them(Eugenie, Rafa, etc.) looking into a mirror. They themselves started the vendetta. No one criticized them except those of their own ilk. Eugenie Scott stirred the pot.
It's a privilege to be an RA. It requires an SI sponsor. His died. Without a sponsor, he would not be renewed as an RA because RAs basically have to be re-sponsored every few years, and obviously nobody there wanted to put their reputation on the line to sponsor him. But one person did offer to sponsor him just to keep him from being a creationist martyr. That's special treatment.
Bull crap. He was not renewed as an RA as it was. They made him an RC. And you admit in the following quote the words "without a sponsor" are meaningless. And privilege it may be, but Sternberg was discriminated against, and if he had been an employee(another position that is a privelege not a right) he would have owned SI.
RAs are supervised, mainly by their sponsors. His died, so sponsorship and supervision defaulted to the Chair.
Like a black female cripple in a government job, he was basically untouchable due to political considerations.
Not prejudiced very much are you?
He pushed through a religious-grounded paper in a science paper that practically all scientists reviewing it said it had no business there.
He was not renewed as an RA as it was. They made him an RC. And you admit in the following quote the words "without a sponsor" are meaningless.
Had his sponsor still been alive, it would have been up to that sponsor to re-sponsor him for another period of three years as an RA when his time came up. His sponsor was dead, so, LIKE ANYONE ELSE, he had nobody to sponsor him for his next three years. Obviously he had such a poor reputation at the SI that nobody else ended up sponsoring him again. Thus the most he could do was become an RC.
if he had been an employee(another position that is a privelege not a right)
Had he been an employee, his position wouldn't have depended on him having a sponsor. In fact, he would be the sponsor.
Not prejudiced very much are you?
I'm sick of cards being played, any cards. And, yes, I saw exactly as described above. A useless woman gamed the system with her various cards for YEARS, and they were never able to get rid of her. Actually, the word useless is incorrect. She was worse than useless, a constant drain on the organization. Simply having nobody in her position would have been better. The bosses tried to do that, put her on the sidelines so she couldn't hurt anything, but she pulled another card and was right back in the game. New bosses would come in and not know what they were getting into. They would try to discipline her not knowing she already had all her cards in a row ready to screw them the moment they tried.