Tracking the modern progress of the First Amendment
Posted in Freedom of Religion on Mar 9th, 2008
An Army soldier who says his promotion was denied because he is atheist filed a new suit this week against several military leaders.
Spc. Jeremy Hall had attempted to hold a meeting with fellow soldiers last fall during which he planned to discuss atheism and other subjects. When his commanding officers told him he could not […]
Posted in Freedom of Religion on Feb 10th, 2008
Professor Guillermo Gonzalez, known at Iowa State University as a vocal supporter of intelligent design theory, is well aware of the controversy his views have stirred up over the years.
One indicator could have been the 2005 circulation of a campus-wide petition denouncing intelligent design (the belief that the universe was deliberately created by a […]
Posted in Speech in Education on Feb 2nd, 2008
A Florida public school board voted Thursday in favor of a resolution to pressure state education officials to change recently imposed standards that they regard as a mandate to teach evolution “as scientific fact.”
Members of the Nassau County School Board want the standards to include language “such that evolution is not presented at the exclusion […]
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