I wrote a letter to my congressmen, and the next day Judge Jones slapped down Intelligent Design in the public schools, in a remarkably brutal decision.. That evening, we toasted long life and good health to Judge Jones at my corporate holiday dinner. My company rocks.
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.
Breathtaking inanity. The decision (according to NPR) is mostly factual findings, which are usually not subject to change on appeal. Facts like “Is ID a thinly veiled creationism? Yes.” “Can we teach religion (as doctrine, not history) in the public schools? No.”
The very best part of the report was at the very end, the commentator asked “and who appointed this judge to the federal bench?” That would be our current president, ladies and gentlemen.
Long life and good health to Judge Jones … and may he have further opportunities to rule on matters of “breathtaking inanity.”
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