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December 22, 2005
Intelligent Defeat
As you know by now, a federal court ruled Tuesday that "intelligent design" cannot be taught as science in the Dover, Pennsylvania public schools, determining that ID is in fact little more than cloaked and disguised creationism, and was simply an attempt to inject religion into the public schools.
Not only did Judge John E. Jones (a Republican, mind you! and a churchgoer) hand the Christian Taliban a defeat in his ruling, he delivered uppn them a stinging, devastating, and wholly public rebuke. His 139-page decision thundered on the joke of a claim by ID backers that theirs is a scientific and not a religious agenda. "We find that the secular purposes claimed by the board amount to a pretext for the board’s real purpose, which was to promote religion in the public school classroom." And when a federal judge accuses them of "breathtaking inanity" in their arguments, you know it had to have gotten pretty thick inside that courtroom.
Judge Jones, in opting to issue the decision he did, using the language he chose, wasn't just settling a case. He was issuing a warning. He sounded a wake-up call to the American people about the Christian right's true theocratic agenda. The people have needed that call because George W. Bush and prominent Republican leaders have spent years endorsing the Christian sheep's clothing false agenda... and the media has become so cowed and intimidated over constant right wing whining about bias in the media that they've presented this pseudo-science as almost legitimate, never discussing what really lies behind it.
The judge effectively poured cold water over a dozing nation Tuesday, trying desperately to awaken us collectively to the reality of the Christian right's agenda -- a public unmasking, as it were. Judge Jones on Tuesday was our Fred from Scooby-Doo, a hero in black robes and not a white sweater and orange ascot; he was the one who grabbed Intelligent Design by the head, said, "Now let's see who you really are!" and revealed the true villian behind the mask. You could almost hear the Christian right grumbling, "And I would have gotten away with it too, if it wasn't for that meddling judge!" as they were led away from the scene.
I agree with what the San Jose Mercury News said in an editorial Wednesday: Judge Jones did a tremendous service to our nation. We owe him our thanks -- and our continued vigilance.
Click below for some more golden nuggets penned by Judge Jones in his decision:
"The students, parents, and teachers of the Dover Area School District deserved better than to be dragged into this legal maelstrom, with its resulting utter waste of monetary and personal resources."
"It is ironic that several of these individuals, who so staunchly and proudly touted their religious convictions in public, would time and again lie to cover their tracks and disguise the real purpose behind the ID Policy."
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MEATBALLS WILL FALL FROM THE SKY AND RIVERS WILL RUN MARINARA SAUCE...
Posted by: Cuzin Jose at December 22, 2005 05:32 PM
