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In a message dated 8/23/2005 11:21:48 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The accusation that he was antagonistic to religion was and remains patently false. The fact of the matter was that the kid had made no demonstration of the academic horsepower required, and I suspect any suit would have been tossed for lack of standing. There was no showing, nor even hint of a showing, that Dini would deny a recommendation to any student who had scored well academically, but believed in creationism -- so long as the student could explain the theory of evolution. Dini was asking academic rigor only. How many times must a black man try to use a whites only water fountain
before he has standing to complain about a law enforcing the segregation of
government owned water fountains? If he would use the whites only
fountain, but never tries because of patent racial discrimination enforced with
criminal law, do you claim that he has not been injured by the
discrimination?
A student wants to take a class offered by a professor, ultimately because
he concludes that the professor's recommendation (should he do well in the
course) would be an important factor in his effort to be admitted to some
program of graduate education. The professor lists on his webpage the
requirement that students acknowledge that white folks are biologically superior
to black ones. Do you applaud the DOJ for recognizing it had no business
involving itself in some "made up" case by a student who lacked the intellectual
rigor for the professor's courses in any event?
Jim Henderson
Senior Counsel
ACLJ |
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