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April 4, 2008 at 10:29am
by thecodepounder The University of California school system refuses to admit students who learn about science from a sectarian institution with a religious viewpoint. So the Advocates for Faith & Freedom (AFF) are suing UC to force them to place sectarian taught myths on the same basis as reality.
Imagine every school system across the nation forced to accept religious dogma instead of reality and the deplorable level of intelligence of scientists produced from such an educational system.
Would it be hyperbole to say that our entire educational system is on trial for its life?
Eh, probably, but not by much. The story above links to a story at OneNewsNow.com (”Your Latest News from a Christian Perspective”), whose article is dated April 3, 2008, but I believe this is the same lawsuit filed in 2005 and discussed in this release from the National Center for Science Education.
At issue is whether the University of California is “violating the constitutional rights of applicants from Christian schools whose high school coursework is deemed inadequate” because the science classes are taught from the “science is the work of the devil! The Earth is only 6000 years old because the Bible says so” perspective rather than the perspective of reality.
See? You get it? Alleged is that the UC admissions policy (requiring applicants’ science classes to actually have contained SCIENCE rather than DOGMA) violates the rights of free speech and free exercise of religion. What a crock of SHIT! If that’s not a perversion of the U.S. Constitution, I don’t know what is.
This case should be an outright LOSER, but you never know… It’s pretty clear, though, that neither right is being infringed. These students have every bit as much right to free speech and free exercise of their religion as any other applicant to the University. It’s simply that their high school curriculum doesn’t meet academic standards–UC isn’t telling them that they can’t believe what they want, or can’t go to any church they want.
I just don’t understand why allegedly “devout” people get so threatened by people who don’t share their beliefs and why they feel so compelled to TELL THE REST OF US HOW TO LIVE OUR LIVES.
“Don’t pray in my school, and I won’t think in your church.”
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