Why go to church when you can go to school?

An interesting topic that seems to be the forefront of today's discussion is the teaching of evolution in schools. The topic hasn't appeared in my school, thankfully, but many schools around the country are experiencing this problem. It's a sad issue that could have been avoided if the American people would have had the foresight to set up an atheist government. But hold on there, let's talk about the idea of an atheist government.

To the Conservative right, an atheist government is portrayed as one that takes religious rights away from the individuals. It is shown to be lacking moral direction and Anti-Christ like. Actually, an atheist government is simply a government that does not make ideas based on religion. So, the idea of gay marriage wouldn't be looked at as "It's wrong by the Bible" but instead looked at as "This may not fit the natural, scientific form of marriage, but marriage is a social institution, not biological." For radical Christians, the idea of a religious government is fine, but only as long as it's their religion. If you're supporting one form of theocracy, than any form of theocracy should flow. However, with an atheist government, the government won't touch your religion. Don't like gay marriage? Ok, then your church doesn't have to honor their marriage or ratify it. Don't support abortion? The goverment won't make you get an abortion! Don't like learning about evolution in school? Tune them out then. You might fail the class, but at least the collective group won't have to be spoon fed unproven lies under your intolerant heel.

But back to the topic of evolution in the school system, to counter Bill Frist's comments on evolution, someone give me one way to prove that intelligent design is proveable. You can't. Try telling kids one of these things and see which one they get easier:

1.) Human life evolved from a lower life form through scientific adaptation and mutation. (Look at these facts.)
2.) A man in the sky made two people, and they conceived two children, who then mated with their mother to create more kids. Oh, and the woman came from the man's rib.

The purpose of a science class is not to discredit or credit a religion. The purpose is to teach kids science (ie, things that can be backed up with facts). If kids want to learn about intelligent design, they can sign up for a theology class, go to church, or read the Bible. However, school is not the place to force your religious views on people. Like I've said before, how would the right winger feel if they had to learn about the scientoligist view on creation? They would bitch and moan about how it shouldn't be allowed.

Please, comrades, keep religion and state strongly seperate, and don't give up the fight.