Religions > Atheism > California School District Agrees To Drop Creationism Course, Settle Lawsuit
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"Jason Spaceman" |
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17 Jan 2006 08:11:33 PM |
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California School District Agrees To Drop Creationism Course, Settle Lawsuit |
From the article:
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006
El Tejon School Officials Agree Not To Offer Controversial Class Again
Americans United for Separation of Church and State today announced
that it has settled a lawsuit over a California school district’s
decision to teach a course promoting creationism.
Americans United, with assistance from the law firm Arnold & Porter
LLP, filed suit against the El Tejon Unified School Districtlast week,
seeking to end a course called “Philosophy of Design” that promoted
creationist ideas, including “intelligent design.” The course, taught
at Frazier Mountain High School in Lebec by special education teacher
and soccer coach Sharon Lemburg, relied heavily on videos produced by
fundamentalist Christian groups that espouse creationism.
Under the terms of the settlement, the course will terminate one week
early. The district’s board of trustees has also agreed to language
stating, “No school over which the School District has authority,
including the High School, shall offer, presently or in the future,
the course entitled ‘Philosophy of Design’ or ‘Philosophy of
Intelligent Design’ or any other course that promotes or endorses
creationism, creation science, or intelligent design.”
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Read it at
http://www.au.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr006=a7oqy5kvo1.app13a&abbr=pr&page=NewsArticle&id=7795&security=1002&news_iv_ctrl=1241
or http://tinyurl.com/9rays
J. Spaceman
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| Title: Re: California School District Agrees To Drop Creationism Course, Settle Lawsuit |
18 Jan 2006 06:49:33 AM |
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Jason Spaceman <notreally@jspaceman.homelinux.org> wrote in
news:3r8rs1lblo5gugbsdhm83n1mndvnldoot8@4ax.com:
From the article:
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Tuesday, January 17, 2006
El Tejon School Officials Agree Not To Offer Controversial Class Again
Americans United for Separation of Church and State today announced
that it has settled a lawsuit over a California school district’s
decision to teach a course promoting creationism.
Americans United, with assistance from the law firm Arnold & Porter
LLP, filed suit against the El Tejon Unified School Districtlast week,
seeking to end a course called “Philosophy of Design” that promoted
creationist ideas, including “intelligent design.” The course, taught
at Frazier Mountain High School in Lebec by special education teacher
and soccer coach Sharon Lemburg, relied heavily on videos produced by
fundamentalist Christian groups that espouse creationism.
Under the terms of the settlement, the course will terminate one week
early. The district’s board of trustees has also agreed to language
stating, “No school over which the School District has authority,
including the High School, shall offer, presently or in the future,
the course entitled ‘Philosophy of Design’ or ‘Philosophy of
Intelligent Design’ or any other course that promotes or endorses
creationism, creation science, or intelligent design.”
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Read it at
http://www.au.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr006
=a7oqy5kvo1.app13a&abbr=pr&page=NewsArticle&id=7795&security=1002
&news_iv_ctrl=1241
or http://tinyurl.com/9rays
J. Spaceman
Caught that on the local news last night, but to be "fair and
balanced" they had to interview a couple sheep that were bleating
the kids need to hear all sides drivel. <Groan>
--
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims
may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber
barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's
cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be
satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment
us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own
conscience.
-- (C.)live (S.)taples Lewis (1898-1963) in "God in the Dock"
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