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A federal judge on Thursday blocked a county school system from instituting a health curriculum that includes discussions of homosexuality.

U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams agreed with two groups that sued contending such discussions gave preference of religions that are tolerant of homosexuality over those that reject it.
Religions that are tolerant of homosexuality... like, what, Buddhism?  I love how fundamentalist Christian groups are using freedom of religion as a mallet in their fight against gays, as well as in their push to establish Creationism as a legitimate science.  "Your message of tolerance oppresses my religious right to hate fags and evolution!  Filthy hippays!"

In this case, Defendants [Montgomery Co. Schools] open up the classroom to the subject of homosexuality, and specifically, the moral rightness of the homosexual lifestyle. However, the Revised Curriculum presents only one view on the subject - that homosexuality is a natural and morally correct lifestyle - to the exclusion of other perspectives...
            - Judge Alexander Williams
This insane trend that you may teach something only if you also include any and all opposing viewpoints must be stamped out.  Seriously, what's the next step?  Teaching Alexander Abian's "Equivalence of Mass and Time" as part of any quantum mechanics class?

theory and fact

Date: 2005-05-06 11:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vardissakheli.livejournal.com
The pertinent question, though, is not whether evolution happens, but whether it happened to us. We have a bunch of observable facts in the fossil record and a theory that successfully explains them, and it's that theory that leads to the conclusion that we evolved from the primordial soup along with everything else.

The problem, of course, is not in labeling this theory a theory, but in the general public's misunderstanding of how the word "theory" is used in science. As long as people can continue to get away with saying "just a theory" about this or any other scientific theory, actual science will have to keep competing with folklore and superstition in public science education.

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