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The ACLU Has a History of Advocating Disparate Treatment for Intelligent Design

By ADF Alliance Alert

Casey Luskin writes at the Discovery Institute: "So the ACLU opposes advocating ID in public schools (because supposedly it?s religion), but would endorse attacking ID by discussing ?flaws or weaknesses in intelligent design? in public schools. Using their own phraseology, they would support teaching 'flaws or weaknesses' of a 'specific religious viewpoint.' Is that legal? It?s certainly quite hypocritical for a group that claims to uphold the separation of church and state. To quote a law review article I recently published on this very point: "[Jurists] cannot treat these viewpoints like religion in order to strike down their advocacy, but then treat them like science ? when they are being critiqued in order to sanction their disapproval. Either a viewpoint is religious and thereby unconstitutional to advocate as correct or critique as false in public schools, or it is scientific and fair game for both advocacy and critique in public schools.'"

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on April 27, 2010 (boomark / email).