Steven Williams Case - more factual information

[Sanford Levinson]

Jim Henderson asks, I think rhetorically,

Will we really saddle our public school teachers with the burden of
saying:  "of course, some people do not agree that this fact is true,
some people specifically state that the circumstances described by this
fact are false, some people find the assertion of this fact as a true
historical incident an affront to them personally because they do not
hold to that fact and to their religious faith." ??
 
 
Isn't it absolutely compelled that public school teachers say something
like this?  I would be outraged if a teacher presented as "fact" the
giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses at Mount Sinai or, for that
matter, the Exodus from Egypt, given that there is, alas, not the
slightest evidence for the presence of Hebrews in Egypt or archeological
artifacts of a Hebrew/Jewish presence in Sinai.  (This doesn't prevent
me from happily celebrating the Exodus at seder every spring, though one
of the questions raised in the discussion has been how one comes to
terms with the lack of evidence.)
 
sandy
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