Well damn! Just as we come to the end of the year, to the HOLY DAZE SEASON we get good news in the battle against teaching religion as science.
A report from Associated Press this morning tells of the ruling against "Intelligent Design" in the Dover Pennsylvania School District. What's even better, is that the case addresses the issue on exactly where it should be addressed. It is unconstitutional to teach religious doctrine in public schoools as if it were fact. What's more significiant is to remember that those religious folk advocating the teaching of religious "values" were themselves lying about their positions, their curriculum and their motives. The judge in the case, John E. Jones III, made this point beautifully when he commented, "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."
This is the crux of the whole thing. I have no complaint with what anyone wants to believe. Lord knows, I believe some bizarre things myself, and frankly I largely subscribe to a foundational belief I learned in seminary, from pastoral care professor J. Lynn Elder, who was adamant that, "Whatever you can say about God, that God is not." In other words, whatever our small minds conceive about the world, the God, or the Universe, it is by definition going to be too small to fit the granidosity of what actually exists out there. So go ahead... believe whatever the hell you want, because the universal and probably immutable law is...
EVERYTHING THING YOU KNOW IS WRONG.
In America you can believe... you can even SAY... pretty much anything you want. That's what we're here for.
But you can't teach it to impressionable young minds in schools with state enforced attendance. It isn't fair, it isn't right, it isn't "christian", and most importantly (thank you Judge Jones) it isn't CONSTITUTIONAL!
Score two points for the good guys!
When you add the latest speculation that a Democratic Congress after the 06 elections (we can hope can't we?) could lead to Articles of Impeachment against Dubya, well the LIGHT really is returning folks!
