Monday, October 8th, 2012
Stephan: It is in the nature of the American culture to not discuss religious beliefs or to impede in anyway anything done under the guise of religion. This was not what the Founders intended. Religion is not a free pass, and we are under assault by the fundamentalist Christians, preachers and laity, who make up the Theocratic Right. In a very real sense the only difference between these people and the Afghani Taliban is their choice of clothing. If you don't speak out against this, don't be surprised to discover your children are by intention being made willfully ignorant, and your daughters reduced to second class status. I am continually amazed at the passivity of the mass in this country.
Secular and science groups have urged the Ohio Supreme Court to rule against John Freshwater, an eighth-grade science teacher who was fired for teaching creationism instead of evolution in class.
‘Freshwater’s pedagogy serves no legitimate educational purpose in a public school science class, is scientifically unsound, and serves only impermissibly to advance a sectarian purpose, namely, to teach creationism in its tradition version of ‘creation science’ or its modern incarnation of intelligent design,
