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Wilson County, Tennessee schools agree to end Bible distribution

By thecodepounder | Published January 10, 2010

Another victory for religious freedom.
So here’s the setup: one day, in Wilson County, Tennessee, the principal of Carroll-Oakland Elementary School brings all the students from the whole school into the gym, where she introduces representatives of the Gideons and explains why they are there, and then proceeds to tell the whole student body about the [...]

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Barbara Forrest on the La. Science Education Act

By thecodepounder | Published November 22, 2009

Talk about grabbing the reader from the very first sentence:
Resistance to the teaching of evolution is an integral part of the history of American anti-intellectualism, which stems in great part from religious fundamentalism.

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