Reply #101: Primary "effect", or primary "purpose"?

[Robert Cooper]

I agree the primary -purpose- is "... teaching evolution is to properly educate young people.". And some will interpret the results as that being the "primary effect" as well.

But not all, which you concede:

"What you describe is an effect on a small subset of people, i.e. fundamentalists."

I agree that what I describe is an effect on a subset of people ("small" being a relative term and inconsequential to my reasoning). The question is: is the Establishment Clause for the protection of the minority from the majority, or is it a tool for the majority to assert itself upon the minority?

My understanding was that it was always for the protection of the minority (or to put it in your words: "a small subset of people").

"That's very different, and no reason to override the very real public interest in creating an educated citizenry."

And so religions that do not agree with state education standards are to be penalized through their youngest members in public schools? How does this avoid Items 2 and 3 of the Lemon test?