Judge tells 'Intelligent Design' creeps to take a hike!

[_TJ_]

Teaching of 'Intelligent Design' is outlawed

By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
Published: 21 December 2005

The campaign to try to force schools in the United States to teach an alternative to Darwinism has suffered a severe set-back after a judge ruled that to do so was a violation of the constitution.

The judge also said that proponents of so-called Intelligent Design had repeatedly lied about the religious convictions that drove them.

In a ruling that will reverberate in schools across the country, US District Judge John Jones ruled the Dover school board in Pennsylvania had been wrong to insist that a statement about Intelligent Design (ID) be read to pupils during biology lessons. He said such a policy represented "breathtaking inanity".

"The citizens of the Dover area were poorly served by the members of the board who voted for the ID Policy," the judge wrote in a 139-page opinion, following a six-week trial. "It is ironic that several of these individuals, who so staunchly and proudly touted their religious convictions in public, would time and again lie to cover their tracks and disguise the real purpose behind the ID Policy."

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article334460.ece

[ComerPerro]

1. Beautiful quote

"It is ironic that several of these individuals, who so staunchly and proudly touted their religious convictions in public, would time and again lie to cover their tracks and disguise the real purpose behind the ID Policy."

[_TJ_]

5. That is the best quote ever!

He really reamed their asses :D

[Loonman]

2. Ha, ha.

Silly rabbits, the Establisment Clause is settled law.

[underpants]

3. Holy Mackerel!

It's like he fish slapped them with a Hallibut

[Strong Atheist]

4. Good for the judge! nt.

[tjwash]

6. Great decision, however the cynic in me says...

...that the timing sucked.

Here is another wedge issue like freedom of choice, gay marriage, guns, etc, etc, etc, that is going to further cement the far right fundies to keep voting for their lunatic fringe candidates just in time for the 2006 run.

However the non-cynic in me says "fuck-em".