Ethics

Oklahoma "Religious Freedom" Bill

By Ed Brayton

My friends at Oklahomans for Excellence in Science Education are fighting against a bill in the legislature there that goes by the name Religious Viewpoints Discrimination Act (see full text of the bill here). It's mostly a pointless bill; almost every provision in it is already the law either by Federal statute or by longstanding court precedent. But there are a couple of provisions that, at best, will provoke many lawsuits and, at worst, will subvert the educational process enormously.

Dave McNeely, a member of the OESE board of governors and a biology professor at Langston University, has an op-ed in the Edmond Sun about the bill. He says:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 12, 2008 (boomark / email).