Apparently, it is OK for a government agency to insist that its employees consider religious explanations for natural phenomenon as equal to scientific ones in the context of science education.<\/p>\n
In a decision issued on July 2, 2010, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld a lower court’s decision that the Texas Education Agency’s policy requiring “neutrality” of its employees when “talking about evolution and creationism” is not unconstitutional.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This idiotic decision is contrary to a lot of other case law and won’t stand. But we will have to fight over this one.<\/p>\n
Elections matter. Because elections determine who gets to be judge.
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