Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
If the schools in Pennsylvania were only teaching ID/creationism instead of straight evolution then that would be the government (in the form of government schools) establishing a religion through common law practice. However that was not the case here.
The case was that ID should be offered as an alternative and open to debate. Perhaps, as some have said, ID should be taught in a religious studies course. But many schools don't have the staff or hours to teach a religious studies class. So an alternate theory, faulty or not, is not even discussed. Instead we spoon feed our students the straight line on accepted science and leave them without the recourse, or practice of, debating and thinking on their own.
How are the court and the school system/school board, not abridging the right of "free exercise" of religion by denying students and teachers the right to speak on their religious beliefs in the forum most available to them- school? Furthermore how is this not a restriction of freedom of speech? We've shut down debate.
Spoon feeding information that has been government approved and carefully scrubbed of all religious connotations- and people call right wingers the facists?
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