Another excellent judicial selection by W!
by Derek W. on December 27th, 2005
It’s worth noting that the federal judge who recently ruled against the inclusion of intelligent design in public school biology classes was appointed to his position by President Bush in 2002:
“Our conclusion today is that it is unconstitutional to teach ID (intelligent design) as an alternative to evolution in a public school science classroom,” Judge Jones, appointed in 2002 by President Bush, wrote in his 139-page opinion.
(See this Washington Times article.)
One of the reasons Bush supporters used to browbeat other people into voting for Bush was because of the courts. Bush would appoint good justices and move the courts back toward the right direction, remember?
You only need to ask intelligent design supporters how things are going to see what’s wrong with this picture.
2 Comments
Sam Ashwood
December 27th, 2005 at 10:23 pm
This only shows up once again how far President Bush is from holding any true Christian values. I didn’t know this until now, but I’m not surprised in the least. I look for more stories like this in the future, as Bush’s utter disregard for everything Christian is already well established.
Ed Willing
December 28th, 2005 at 3:33 pm
I am a bit in the middle on this ruling. I am not surprised by the ruling, per se; I was a bit taken aback by how articulately he lambasted the defenders of ID.
As far as my “in the middle” point of view, I believe that “intelligent design” IS a veiled attempt to teach creation as another alternative theory. And in fact, I support the teaching of creation as an alternate theory, and believe in it myself. But to stand in court and insist that it is not creationism or an attempt to squeeze in creationism is itself a lie. And the fact that the judge saw through this does not surprise me. It is unfortunate that we could not have approached this in a less visceral way. Maybe the Dover schoolboard would still be there today and able to affect more good in the long term.