Can any document an actual case of a public school teacher using a science
classroom to ridicule anyone's religion? Any known cases of parents filing
a complaint for that reason or a teacher being reprimanded for it?
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Louise M. Freeman, PhD
Psychology Dept
Mary Baldwin College
Staunton, VA 24401
540-887-7326
FAX 540-887-7121
I personally do not know of a single K-12 science teacher who teaches
science as a naturalistic philosophy. Most are Christians themselves.
A teacher who is an atheist or agnostic, however, can say "your silly ideas
about the Bible and God are falsified by science" without violating the
Constitution, or at least without drawing an establishment clause lawsuit
from a well-funded civil liberties organization. It's easy to deride those
fundamentalist kids and their parents for their apparently belligerent
YEC-ism.
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