{"id":245,"date":"2005-01-13T22:37:47","date_gmt":"2005-01-14T06:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/?p=245"},"modified":"2005-01-13T22:43:07","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T06:43:07","slug":"msnbc-judge-nixes-evolution-textbook-stickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/13\/msnbc-judge-nixes-evolution-textbook-stickers\/","title":{"rendered":"Score one for the courts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/ID\/6822028\/\">MSNBC<\/a> reports on how a Federal judge has ruled those stupid stickers in Georgian biology textbooks stating that &#8220;evolution is just a theory&#8221; be removed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ATLANTA &#8211; A federal judge Thursday ordered a suburban Atlanta school system to remove stickers from its high school biology textbooks that call evolution \u201ca theory, not a fact,\u201d saying the disclaimers are an unconstitutional endorsement of religion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy denigrating evolution, the school board appears to be endorsing the well-known prevailing alternative theory, creationism or variations thereof, even though the sticker does not specifically reference any alternative theories,\u201d U.S. District Judge Clarence Cooper said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>C&#8217;mon, folks. The Constitution grants us freedom <em>of<\/em> religion, which also grants us freedom <em>from<\/em> religion. Public schools should be science-based in their curriculum &#8211; this is the only way to ensure a fair education to everyone, regardless of their religion (or lack thereof). If you want your children to be educated in a religious manner, put them into a religious school.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC reports on how a Federal judge has ruled those stupid stickers in Georgian biology textbooks stating that &#8220;evolution is just a theory&#8221; be removed. ATLANTA &#8211; A federal judge <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/13\/msnbc-judge-nixes-evolution-textbook-stickers\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thecyberwolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}