ACLU to Kansas school district: Cancel creationist assemblies about dinosaurs

[The Straight Story]

The American Civil Liberties Union has warned a southwest Kansas school district against holding mandatory student assemblies that feature a creationist group.

“Teaching or otherwise promoting creationism is, simply put, unlawful,” the ACLU wrote in a letter to Hugoton Public Schools superintendent Mark Crawford on Friday. “As the District is surely aware, the federal courts have been unequivocally clear that efforts to inject religious beliefs regarding the origin of life into public school science curricula are constitutionally impermissible, no matter what form they take.”

Hugoton Public Schools invited Creation Truth Foundation’s founder Dr. G. Thomas Sharp to teach the “Truth about Dinosaurs” at two assemblies next week. At least one of the assemblies will be mandatory for all students and teachers.

The group has created teaching materials “explaining the origins, extinction and possible existence of dinosaurs” from a Biblical view and believes the dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex walked the Earth as early as 100,000 years ago rather more than 65 million years ago. In a lecture uploaded to YouTube last year, Sharp criticized scientists for ignoring the great flood of the Bible.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/21/aclu-to-kansas-school-district-cancel-creationist-assemblies-about-dinosaurs/

[OKNancy]

1. For the actual story.. and where rawstory* lifted this from

here is a better article for those interested. http://www.kansascity.com/2013/04/19/4191719/aclu-protests-creationism-groups.html

*rawstory repackages other people's work and does not do original reporting.

[Tempest]

4. Everyone is aware Rawstory is a dissemination of information, not the source. n/t

[brewens]

2. I'd be interested to know where in The Bible it mentions dinosaurs? They must

be mentioned, right? You'd think that would be kind of a hard thing to leave out.

Now that they know to look, I can't wait to see dinosaur finds from biblical sites. Evidence of humans hunting and eating them would be huge!

[TwilightZone]

3. Sadly, they have an answer for that.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022727735

Question 6.

[AgingAmerican]

5. There is vague mention of a 'behemoth'. That is the dino, according to Republicans.

[pinboy3niner]

6. I remember him...

[Logical]

7. Kansas is a shithole of GOP idiots at this point. I can hardly believe we had a female Gov......

not that long ago!

[DetlefK]

8. WTF? Dinosaurs 100,000 years ago? How is that biblical?

[leftyohiolib]

9. DONT THEY CLAIM THE EARTH (oops) to be only 5k years old

[cui bono]

10. There was a pic of Jesus riding a dinosaur on Conservopedia.

I have it somewhere but can't find it right now.

Well here you go:
https://www.google.com/search?q=jesus+riding+dinosaur&client=firefox-a&hs=Y32&rls=org.mozilla:en-US fficial&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=P1d0UYC6OIaYiQKcyYD4CQ&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1320&bih=685

Bah... there's some emoticon thing in the url... but if you google "jesus riding dinosaur" in images you'll see it.

The second one is the one I had seen before.

[DetlefK]

12. The Bible says, Jesus had a pet-dinosaur and wore a mullet??? Forewarn me next time!!!

http://www.dailysquib.co.uk/most-popular/1236-scientists-prove-jesus-walked-with-dinosaurs.html

Dammit, fell for it.

[EC]

11. Don't they still have Sunday Schools to teach

all that bull crap? Why do they even want to teach it in regular schools?

the only reason I see is to convert non- believers (which is stupid since it is showing their stupid side) and force their views on everybody else.

Just another right wing money making scam....

Good teachers and non-evangelicals should not attend even though it's mandatory...what can they do to them if they don't go?