Ethics

Iowa School Flirting With Legal Trouble

By Ed Brayton

A school district in Iowa is wading into troubled legal waters on religious issues by issuing an ill-advised "religious liberties" policy that includes teaching a course against evolution. You can view the proposed policy as a Word document here. Most of it is pretty mundane stuff that is already required legally, like declaring that the school "will not discriminate against private religious expression" and will "allow for student and employee religious expression within the law."

Even the provisions for graduation ceremonies isn't particularly bothersome to me. The policy first says:

Content of speeches by private individuals will not regulated on religious content.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on July 10, 2009 (boomark / email).