"Once again, the ACLU will be defending religious freedom against those who want to force creationism into our public schools. The underlying conflict has been going on at least since the Scopes trial, a famous ACLU case from an earlier era." God Bless the ACLU! Errr, no, wait a minute that doesn't sound right. Interesting how these news letters always assume the recipient is as ignorant as cold toast.
"...the creationists have a new ploy. It's called "intelligent design" -- an "alternative" to the scientific theory of evolution that religious extremists have cooked up as a way to sneak religious proselytizing into our public schools."
Gee, ya think? Glad they told me or else I might not have noticed.
"It is all too clear that powerful political forces are not just tinkering around the edges of our religious freedom -- they have set their sights on transforming our country from a constitutional democracy to a thinly veiled theocracy. They want to turn America into a country governed by their interpretation of the Bible, serviced by faith-based, taxpayer-funded institutions and guided by religious doctrine against which neither citizens nor judges should dare to speak up."
Yup, people are finally beginning to "GET IT." This is precisely what the Christian Right has on its agenda. Notice the phrase "their interpretation of the Bible." I hope the Roman Catholic, Eastern Othodox and Mainline Protestant folks in the country understand that this is the Fundamentalist Protestant interpretation which, trust me on this, no one else is going to care for, especially the Catholics. You'll be lucky if they let you "Papists continue to practice your religion of the anti-christ." Don't believe me on this one, just research "Dominionism" on the web.
Updated information, including information about the Dover Pennsylvania court case, can be found at the ACLU site http://www.aclu.org/evolution/.
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