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Showing Original Post only (View all)5 Shocking Ways the Christian Right Has Forced the Bible Into America's Schools [View all]
http://www.alternet.org/5-shocking-ways-christian-right-has-forced-bible-americas-schools***SNIP
1. Texas: In one of the creationists sneakiest moves to date, in 2007 a phalanx of anti-science fundamentalist groups swamped the Texas legislature and lobbied for a law allowing elective courses about the Bible in public schools.
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2. Louisiana: In the early 1980s, Louisiana legislators decided to pass a law mandating that when evolution was taught in public schools, creation science must be as well. Scientists, educators and advocates of church-state separation were appalled and blasted the so-called balanced treatment measure, but lawmakers, led by state Sen. Bill Keith, plowed ahead. The bill was soon law.
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3. Georgia: Education officials in Cobb County, Georgia have a long and sorry history of trying to undercut instruction about evolution. Any discussion of the origin of the human species is banned in elementary and middle schools, and high schools are forbidden to require students to demonstrate an understanding of evolution as a condition of graduation.
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4. Pennsylvania: The school board in Dover, PA., a small town south of Harrisburg, thought it would be a good idea in 2004 to introduce intelligent design (ID) creationism in public school science classes. (Intelligent design holds that human life is so complex that it must have been purposefully designed by some intelligent agency. God and space aliens are the leading contenders, and the IDers arent really serious about the space aliens.)
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5 Shocking Ways the Christian Right Has Forced the Bible Into America's Schools [View all]
xchrom
Jan 2013
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As for that first one - it's frustrating because of course students should be exposed to the Bible
el_bryanto
Jan 2013
#2
From the beginning of time until the late 1500's 99.9% of the population never thought....
rgbecker
Jan 2013
#7
from the beginning of time until the late 1500s 99.99% of the population didn't matter
el_bryanto
Jan 2013
#10
And I agree with that - of course I also wouldn't trust a passionate atheist to teach it either nt
el_bryanto
Jan 2013
#17
And they wonder why some of us hold their religion in complete and utter contempt.
beerandjesus
Jan 2013
#3
I bet a lot of the heads of the so-called "Christian right" would explode if....
OldDem2012
Jan 2013
#8