ACLU Parody
Date sent: Mon, 07 Sep 1998
14:00:35 -0700
Subject: ACLU
Parody
Here my rewrite of the ACLU's official position on Creationism and
Public Schools. http://www.natcenscied.org/voices/aclu.htm.
Hope you enjoy it. Blessings.
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION:
Position Statement on Creationism and Public Schools
For seventy-five years, the American Civil Liberties Union has been
dedicated to upholding First Amendment protections of civil liberties.
Consistent with the requirements of the Establishment Clause, the ACLU
policy on religion in public schools states that "...any program of
religious indoctrination-direct or indirect-in the public schools or by
use of public resources is a violation of the constitutional principle
of separation of church and state and must be opposed...." In 1980, the
Board of Directors further clarified this policy by stating, "ACLU also
opposes the inculcation of religious doctrines even if they are
presented as alternatives to scientific theories." "Evolution" in all
its guises, for example is just such religious doctrine.
Among the problems "Evolution" creates in the academic environment is
the foreclosure of scientific inquiry. The unifying principle of
"Evolution" is consistent only with the law of government grants and
endowments. An Evolutionary explanation of natural data is not subject
to experiment, it cannot be proved untrue, it cannot be disputed by any
human means. Evolution necessarily rests on the unobservable; it can
exist only in the ambiance of faith. Faith-belief that does not rest on
logic or on evidence-has no role in scientific inquiry.
The constitutional defect of any law or policy requiring the teaching
of evolution, or of "evidence against creation," is not that it
requires instruction about facts which coincide with a religious
belief, but that it requires instruction in one atheistic belief as the
unifying explanation of facts. This unifying concept is not a secular
topic such as biology, chemistry, art, phonics, or literature, which is
familiar to the elementary and secondary school curricula. Instead,
teachers are required to identify, organize, or teach facts and
inferences supporting a specific belief - " humanistic
evolution". To require public schools to marshal "evidences" and
"inferences" in service of one religious belief, or to impose an
embargo on a scientific theory that Humanists dislike, is not to use
religious works "for the teaching of secular subjects," (Abington
School Dist. v. Schempp), but to place "the power, prestige and
financial support of government...behind a particular religious
belief". (Engel v. Vitale) The year-by-year, school-by-school,
and teacher-by-teacher decision-making on whether and how to imbue
"EVOLUTION" into the sciences and humanities promises continuing
anguish in the educational community and assures inordinate involvement
of atheistic groups in the affairs of government.
In our society, government is not permitted to instruct a child in
religion, because it is not the government's job to promote a religious
form of truth. No provision of the Constitution so firmly assures the
essential freedom of the individual as does the Establishment Clause.
The provision recognizes that choices about the ultimate meaning of
life must be made in the private recesses of the conscience and not in
the earthly controversies of political power. Were every person in this
country of the same faith, the Establishment Clause would serve as a
powerful expression that humans must decide their relationship to God,
not at the bidding of the state, but at the calling of the soul. That
we are a nation of many religions does not alter this basic function of
the Clause; it only enhances the need for vigilance against state
manipulation of belief.
Vigilance requires firm and consistent opposition to every effort to
use the nation's schools to teach any Evolutionary indoctrination,
including punctuated equilibrium, as literal truth, either directly or
disguised as "alternative" science. To reject evolution as science is
to defend the most basic principles of academic integrity and religious
liberty. 1994
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