The Kansas Board of Education has come a long way since removing almost all mention of evolution from the high school biology curriculum in 1999. Voters in Kansas voted for moderates that favored evolution in Republican primaries last week, according to the The New York Times.
The First Amendment requires a separation between church and state, thus, religious views cannot be taught in public schools. Intelligent Design is not supported by any actual facts or believed in by anyone not religious, and its connection to religious beliefs is not disputed. One wonders what went wrong in 1999.
When it comes to boards of education, the best curriculums survive to next September, and the Biblical biology classes mandated by the religious right were killed off by Kansas voters.
Tags: Politics, Current Events, Current Affairs, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Censorship, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Education, Kansas, First Amendment, Religion
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