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Teacher Cannot Be Sued For Denying Creationism
gzipped_tar writes "A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that a public high school teacher in Mission Viejo, California may not be sued for making hostile remarks about religion in his classroom. The decision stems from a lawsuit filed by a student charging that the teacher's hostile remarks about creationism and religious faith violated a First Amendment mandate that the government remain neutral in matters of religion. A three-judge panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that the lawsuit must be thrown out of court because the teacher was entitled to immunity."
> The question before that court was whether the classroom instructor had the
> authority to overrule the authority of the elected body responsible for setting policy.
Any attempt to answer "Life, The Universe and Everything" is religion[1]. So basically what we have here is the schools mandating teachers only teach the official State religion. Which of course perfectly fits Politically Correct teaching where in the NewSpeak 'tolerance' is defined as people of every skin pigmentation, mating preference and gender identity coming together to think exactly the same and being intolerant in the extreme to anyone who thinks even slightly different. And it is of course no accident that the official religion is totalitarian; everything within the State, nothing without.
[1] Religion being a word that does not require a belief in a old white guy in the sky. or even a pantheon of bearded white guys in the sky. Any attempt to explain the big questions that science cannot (but too many believe it can) answer is religion. Otherwise we have several very old religions which wouldn't fit the definition. The problem is that science can tackle a lot of questions as to WHAT the universe is but it can't answer WHY. Nor can it probe one femtosecond beyond the big bang and remain science. But all too many people think science CAN supply a complete philosophical/religious system.
Democrat delenda est
You excuses don't make what he said not true, it only attempts to ration why you think is acceptable.
Here is a news flash, how over worked the 9th circuit court is happens to be a left wing talking point. It is unfortunate that you have repeated it as if it's any more valid then the op's statement.