Thursday, December 22, 2005
Schoolyard Bullies
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This appeared in the Washington Post on Thursday, December 22, 2005, in response to Judge Jones' decision in the Dover Intelligent Design case:
Some politically influential backers of intelligent design warned that U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III, who was appointed by President Bush, so overreached that his ruling will outrage and inflame millions of conservative and religiously observant Americans.
"This decision is a poster child for a half-century secularist reign of terror that's coming to a rapid end with Justice Roberts and soon-to-be Justice Alito," said Richard Land, who is president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission and is a political ally of White House adviser Karl Rove. "This was an extremely injudicious judge who went way, way beyond his boundaries -- if he had any eyes on advancing up the judicial ladder, he just sawed off the bottom rung."
And so, the ugly bullying continues, more proof that ID was never about science. It is about religious politics and a particularly nasty brand of politics to boot. We haven't seen the like of it since the days of a certain junior Senator from Wisconsin.
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We can only hope they get so out of hand that there is a reaction to them also.
I see small signs of hope. The fracturing of the Republican concensus, more religious groups speaking out against the perversion of science and a stronger and more concerted effort by those who oppose IDC.
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I see small signs of hope. The fracturing of the Republican concensus, more religious groups speaking out against the perversion of science and a stronger and more concerted effort by those who oppose IDC.
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