It's a pleasure to welcome our new colleague Sarah Chaffee, who wrote on Friday about an academic freedom bill in Alabama. As she points out, neither that proposed law nor similar laws in Louisiana and Tennessee do what some critics claim. Those laws do not permit teaching the religious doctrine of creationism in public school science classes, nor do they give sanction to teaching about the scientific theory of intelligent design.
We've explained many times why a law that explicitly rejects...
Published on June 01, 2015 02:00