Friday, August 15, 2008

Sneaky Christians with Bad Lawyers

Every rationally minded individual should rejoice at the verdict of Association of Christian Schools International vs. University of California. Basically, the court upheld UC's right to refuse classes taught from a religious perspective, such as biology classes that teach intelligent design. As if this wasn't good news enough, wait until you hear one of the reasons why these creationists failed. There were basically two legal issues that the Christian Schools were suing over. The first was whether the text of UC's policies in itself represented a denial of these students' freedom of religious expression. The second issue was whether the application of these policies in practice violated students' religious freedom. Well the Christians were so sure that they would win on the issue of the application of these policies that they focused their entire defense on proving that the text of UC's policies, as written, caused a violation of freedom. This basically destroyed their case, because when the trial came down the second issue, the Christians were completely unprepared and weren't even able to provide sufficient evidence that wrongdoing had even occurred.

Christians, get some better lawyers. Course I think we know which side of the isle most lawyers are on. The Devil's.

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