With every passing day, my desire to nuke the South gets stronger...
You just KNOW this wouldn't happen outside Texas. Or maybe Louisiana.
It seems the US Department of Justice is launching a probe into the
policies of a Texas Tech professor. Michael Dini, to be specific. He
teaches biology.
Now, what could be so terrible about this man's policies to warrant a
federal investigation? The answer may surprise you. And then make you want
to strangle people. You see, the entire reason for this investigation is
because he won't write letters of recommendation to people who don't
believe in evolution.
No, really. Apparently, this is some form of religious discrimination, and
the government should force professors to recommend people against their
will. Also, I should be living in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Lane.
"Students are being denied recommendations not because of their competence
in understanding evolution, but solely because of their personal religious
beliefs," said Kelly Shackelford, chief counsel for the Liberty Legal
Institute. Of course, the fact that he also excludes students he doesn't
know fairly well and those who haven't earned an "A" in one of his classes
doesn't mean ANYTHING to them, I'd expect.
But that's beside the point. Liberty Legal Institute, as you may have
noticed from the link, is the legal branch of the Free Market Foundation.
From their About Us page:
The mission of Free Market is to protect freedoms and strengthen families
throughout Texas by impacting our legislature, media, grassroots, and
courts with the truth. To do this we are guided by the principles which
limit government, promote free enterprise and Judeo-Christian values.
Judeo-Christian values, and mention of family. Gee, does that make anyone
else suspicious?
The American Civil Liberties Union has, as usual, summed up what I'm pretty
sure is the real motivation behind this case. "This was a student or a
group who was looking to re-ignite the creation-evolution battle," says
Harvey Madison, president of the ACLU of Lubbock.
Personally, I've got to go with a friend of mine, John Kelly, on this one:
"If you are a biologist, and you don't understand evolution enough to
believe in it, you didn't learn anything in school and don't deserve a
recommendation
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