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Re: Evolution

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SubjectRe: Evolution
FromGraeme
Date2002-04-18 01:18 (2002-04-18 01:18)
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Teaching creationism in public schools would be a clear violation of the

separation of church and state.

There is no such thing. And a good thing too, because if there were, it would be impossible to jail a person for committing a murder in a church because the laws of the state wouldn't extend in there.

The part I assume you're referring to is a prohibition on government mandates, not a prohibition on speech as such. There is no constitutional requirement of censorship, and if there were, the First Amendment would be the most perverse place imaginable to look for it. A law *requiring* creationism to be taught might be another story, but even there there's a certain difficulty in excluding ideas based on the motivation of the speaker. For example, I have two friends I'm thinking of. One supports capital punishment on religious grounds (or so he claims). The other opposes it on religious grounds (or so he claims). Wouldn't taking your idea to its logical conclusion require us both to have and not have capital punishment simultaneously in order to avoid legislating either one's religious ideas?

~~~~~ In the begining, God illegally created the heavens and the earth in violation of the Constitution's strict separation of church and state clause.

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