Another round of wasting taxpayer money in an effort to promote a state religion, the Constitution be damned.
Lawyers for a group of parents Monday challenged the teaching of intelligent design as nothing more than an old argument for God wrapped in new cloth, as a new legal front opened in the evolution wars.
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"This clever tactical repackaging of creationism does not merit consideration," Witold Walczak, legal director of the Pennsylvania American Civil Liberties Union and a lawyer for the parents, told a federal judge. "It's an old argument for God that's been around for centuries."
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The school board, represented by the Thomas More Law Center, a religious-based nonprofit firm, took the position that this was about freedom of speech.
"Intelligent Design theory is really science in its purest form," said Pat Gillen, a lawyer for the board. "It promotes the search for knowledge that embodies the essence of a liberal education."
Yeah, because lawyers are just so well known for their expertise in evolutionary biology, stratigraphy, physics and physical chemistry. I guess that just settles the whole argument: intelligent design is OK because an attorney says so. Count me convinced.
Not.
I guess that asking these idiots to spend more time in their respective Sunday schools teaching whatever fables they want is out of the question. That would require that they drag their asses out of bed on Sunday Morning and make it to church on a regular basis, you know, become practicing Xtians instead of practicing Xtian-Fascists.
