Ethics

Letter to Editor Reveals Sham of "Academic Freedom" Law

By Ed Brayton

During the Dover trial, one of the lines of evidence used to show the essentially religious nature of Intelligent Design was the fact that the letters to the editor supporting the policy almost invariably argued that introducing ID into science classrooms was a good thing because it would lead to students believing in God again. Here's a perfect example of the same thing in Louisiana in support of that sham "academic freedom" legislation, also advocated by the very same people who advocated putting ID into classrooms, and the same people who denied that doing so was for the purpose of promoting belief in God:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on January 23, 2009 (boomark / email).