Originally posted by franklin
You are spuing out of your mouth pure rubbish! Your thinking is totally upside down!! It's the evolutionists and the political correctness crowd that don't want creationism taught in the public schools ... Your thinking is based on the depraved mind of humanism!
Originally posted by franklin
What's your problem? The truth hurt? You sound like the liberals and the political correctness/anti-God crowd who won't allow creationism in the public schools!!
[Balance of Franklin's insulting hyperventilation snipped.]
Once again Franklin demonstrates his complete ignorance of the facts.
You forgot the federal courts, Franklin. Teaching creationism or the oxymoronic "creation science" in the public schools has been ruled a violation of the United States Constitution's First Amendment on numerous occasions.
Most notably, Louisiana's Balanced Treatment Act was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1987, in a case called
Edwards v. Aguillard. Seven Justices out of nine ruled that "creation science" was a "sham."
William Brennan wrote the opinion of the Court. William Brennan was nominated to the Court by Dwight D. Eisenhower, a Republican.
Lewis Powell wrote a concurring opinion. Powell was nominated to the Court by Richard M. Nixon, a Republican. Byron White also wrote a concurring opinion. Although he was nominated to the Court by John F. Kennedy, Byron White was one of the most conservative Supreme Court Justices in modern history.
The other four Justices that joined in the majority opinions were Harry Blackmun, nominated by Nixon; Sandra Day O'Connor, nominated by Ronald W. Reagan, a Republican; John Paul Stevens, nominated by Gerald R. Ford, yet another Republican; and Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court Justice, nominated by Lyndon B. Johnson.
So Franklin, that is your "liberals and the political correctness/anti-God crowd who won't allow creationism in the public schools!!" with the "depraved minds of humanists." Five Republicans and two Democrats, including one of the most conservative Democrats ever appointed to the bench.
And you cannot take any comfort from the dissenting opinion, which was written by Antonin Scalia and joined by William Rehnquist, two more Republican appointees. Scalia's dissent by no means represents an endorsement of "creation science," but rather is a technical criticism of some the standards of statutory construction by which the majority reached its conclusion.
In fact Scalia took pains to distance himself from the ludicrous and illogical statements made by the Balanced Treatment Act's main sponsor.
So Franklin if you are referring to the United States Supreme Court as it sat in 1987 (or today for that matter: seven out of nine current Justices are Republican appointees) as the "liberals and the political correctness/anti-God crowd who won't allow creationism in the public schools!!" with the "depraved minds of humanists," clearly you need more than an introductory lesson in biology, you need one in rudimentary American politics.
and that's from ROFLOL!!!!! 
