Rick Adams wrote:
A PRIVATE college or university has the right to insist that its faculty
present material from only one perspective (i.e., a Southern Baptist
University can insist on a Christian approach--which, by the way, they
don't [I teach for one now]),
Many do. Perhaps not yours.
but a public institution is subject to the
protections afforded by the Constitution--including free speech. Not only
can't the government insist that a given religious view be presented in a
favorable light, they can't insist that it be presented at all. That
violates the guarantees of separation of church and state.
A) The separation of church and state is not what it once was. B) Even if it were, the latest trick has been to hide the religious basis of creationism behind the guise of a "science" of "intelligent design" without reference to any specific religious text.
The only reason the state gets away with it is because no one wants to take the obvious step of refusing to obey the rule and filing action in Federal court if they are adversely affected by doing so. If they did, the law would be thrown out in a heartbeat as violating the Constitution.
Depends on who is sitting on the Federal Bench in the near future, now doesn't it? You may have noticed some discussion of this issue in the news of late.
Regards, -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 416-736-5115 ext. 66164 fax: 416-736-5814 http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ============================ .
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