Sanity!

In a victory for sanity, intelligence, and critical thought, a Pennsylvania district court judge has ruled that the Dover School Board can't impose its religious beliefs - in the form of so-called "intelligent design" theory - on public school students.

The opinion is masterfully written, and an excellent summary of both the state of the law and the slimy tactics resorted to by those who would shove their religious beliefs down everyone's throat. That said, this is probably the finest paragraph in the opinion.

"Those who disagree with our holding will likely mark it as the product of an activist judge. If so, they will have erred as this is manifestly not an activist Court. Rather, this case came to us as the result of the activism of an ill-informed faction on a school board, aided by a national public interest law firm eager to find a constitutional test case on ID, who in combination drove the Board to adopt an imprudent and ultimately unconstitutional policy. The breathtaking inanity of the Board’s decision is evident when considered against the factual backdrop which has now been fully revealed through this trial. The students, parents, and teachers of the Dover Area School District deserved better than to be dragged into this legal maelstrom, with its resulting utter waste of monetary and personal resources."

Go check it out:
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Thank you, Judge Jones.