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Dover School Board to pay 1 million dollars
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:02:54 -0500
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [johnmacsgroup] Dover School Board to pay 1 million dollars Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:43:17 -0500 From: Lizard <lizard () mrlizard com> Reply-To: johnmacsgroup () yahoogroups com To: johnmacsgroup () yahoogroups com A bittersweet victory, at best, since the nitwits responsible for this asinine plan aren't personally suffering in the least. Instead, the students are. If I had any suspicion the individuals responsible were capable of ethical or moral behaviour, I would at least take some meagre satisfaction that in the thought they would feel guilt or shame over what their mindless zealotry has cost their community. However, they are not. Pumped full of holy self-righteousness, they are incapable of perceiving themselves as the wrongdoers; to them, this is just martyr-worthy persecution, and it does nothing but sanctify them even more. If they were truly "Christian", the would follow Christ's dictum that "if a man demands you walk with him a mile, walk with him two", and pay, out of their own pockets, TWO million in restitution for the harm they have done. However, they are too busy flaunting their virtue in public to actually attempt to live by the teachings of their faith's putative founder. =========================== http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-BRF-Evolution-Debate-Lawsuit.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Dover, Pa., School Board to Pay $1M Article Tools Sponsored By By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: February 22, 2006 Filed at 12:15 a.m. ET DOVER, Pa. (AP) -- The Dover Area School Board unanimously agreed Tuesday to pay $1 million in legal fees to the plaintiffs who successfully sued to end the policy of presenting ''intelligent design'' as an alternative to evolution. The eight board members agreed to pay three legal organizations that represented the plaintiffs in the case. The organizations also said they agreed to reduce their attorneys' fees and expenses by more than $1 million because members who supported the intelligent design policy had been voted off the board. In December, a federal judge ruled the previous board's decision to insert intelligent design into the science curriculum violated the constitutional separation of church and state. The theory attributes the existence of complex organisms to an unidentified intelligent cause. During the six-week trial, the school board said it was trying improve science education by exposing students to alternatives to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection. -- Blog:http:\\www.xanga.com\lizard_sf Disclaimer: Sent without intent to annoy. If you're annoyed by anything I write, that's your problem. Get over yourself. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnmacsgroup/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: johnmacsgroup-unsubscribe () yahoogroups com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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