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Loup Garou

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Sun Apr 21, 2013, 02:22 PM Apr 2013

ACLU to Kansas school district: Cancel creationist assemblies about dinosaurs




The American Civil Liberties Union has warned a southwest Kansas school district against holding mandatory student assemblies that feature a creationist group.

“Teaching or otherwise promoting creationism is, simply put, unlawful,” the ACLU wrote in a letter to Hugoton Public Schools superintendent Mark Crawford on Friday. “As the District is surely aware, the federal courts have been unequivocally clear that efforts to inject religious beliefs regarding the origin of life into public school science curricula are constitutionally impermissible, no matter what form they take.”

Hugoton Public Schools invited Creation Truth Foundation’s founder Dr. G. Thomas Sharp to teach the “Truth about Dinosaurs” at two assemblies next week. At least one of the assemblies will be mandatory for all students and teachers.


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/21/aclu-to-kansas-school-district-cancel-creationist-assemblies-about-dinosaurs/
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ACLU to Kansas school district: Cancel creationist assemblies about dinosaurs (Original Post) Loup Garou Apr 2013 OP
The graphic is plainly of a docile herbivore, as anyone can see by the teeth. RC Apr 2013 #1
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