PBS Telling Teachers to Violate First Amendment, Group Says

From the story: A packet for educators issued by the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) in conjunction with the NOVA program "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial" encourages teaching practices that are probably unconstitutional, a conservative organization stated on Tuesday.

The guide claims to provide teachers with "easily digestible information to guide and support you in facing challenges to evolution."

"The PBS materials, in suggesting that students need not be concerned that evolution violates their religion, ironically equip public school teachers to violate our current conception of the First Amendment by explicitly teaching students concerning matters of religious belief," said Randal Wenger, a Pennsylvania attorney who filed amicus briefs in the Kitzmiller v. Dover School District case. Read more...

It is telling that PBS is using their resources to defend evolution in public schools.

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