Judge: Textbook evolution stickers ‘unconstitutional’

by on January 13th, 2005

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/13/national/main666741.shtml

(CBS/AP) A federal judge on Thursday ordered the removal of stickers placed in high school biology textbooks that call evolution “a theory, not a fact,” saying they were an unconstitutional endorsement of religion.

The disclaimers were put in the books by school officials in suburban Cobb County in 2002.

“Adopted by the school board, funded by the money of taxpayers, and inserted by school personnel, the sticker conveys an impermissible message of endorsement and tells some citizens that they are political outsiders while telling others they are political insiders,” U.S. District Judge Clarence Cooper said in his 44-page ruling.

Etalkinghead Staff