Dover School Board to pay 1 million dollars

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Subject: [johnmacsgroup] Dover School Board to pay 1 million dollars
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:43:17 -0500
From: Lizard <lizard () mrlizard com>
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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.

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-BRF-Evolution-Debate-Lawsuit.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Dover, Pa., School Board to Pay $1M

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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.
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