Missouri lawmakers making the case that students should say anything they want in science class
And not get a bad grade for it... as long as you believe the offending scientific topic doesn't mesh with your religion.
"Evolution? Germs causing disease? Heliocentrism? I don't believe in it, I'll take my A now please."
From Right Wing Watch:
During the controversy over Hobby Lobby’s refusal to provide its employees with contraception insurance coverage and the outrage over Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson’s being denied his supposed constitutional right to appear on television, we witnessed conservative activists stretch the limits of the meaning of religious freedom.
As Justice Scalia put it in Employment Division v. Smith, such an exaggerated view of religious freedom serves “to make the professed doctrines of religious belief superior to the law of the land, and in effect to permit every citizen to become a law unto himself.”
The Religious Right has increasingly brought this religious freedom argument into debates over gay rights and the teaching of evolution.
In Missouri, Republican lawmakers contend that public school students should get an exemption from any class on evolution — the bedrock of modern biology — if they think learning about science amounts to an “infringement on people’s beliefs”
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/right-wing-religious-freedom-narrative-taken-its-logical-extreme-anti-gay-anti-evolution-pus
When even Scalia is thinking it's a bad idea, then you know it's bad.
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