"Mormon Student, Justice, ACLU Join Up"

[Steven Jamar]

Surely this can't be right, at least not as broadly as it is stated.   
Surely the state can and indeed must choose any number of positions  
that secularists advance without it being "discriminatory."  Or at  
least not constitutionally or statutorily illegally discriminatory.

Surely the state can choose to teach math, calculus, physics,  
astronomy, chemistry, biology, geology, history, literature,  
psychology, philosophy, economics, environmental science, and an all  
sorts of other subjects from a "secularist" position -- one relying  
on data and proof and scientific methods, etc. -- without running  
afoul of the constitution or statutes.

Does teaching evolution and that the earth is more than 6000 years  
old discriminate against young-earther Bible literalists?  I suppose  
so in the sense of discrimination being used in the general sense of  
distinguishing among various things.  But not in the legally suspect  
sense.

Steve

> [snip]I simply stress that there are many comparable secular  
> ideologies and, as Doug Laycock and Michael McConnell among so many  
> others on this list have argued, favoring the secularist position  
> often advanced by the neoatheists is discriminatory.
>
> David
>
> David E. Guinn, JD, PhD
>
>
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your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Matthew 6:19-21


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