Less Preaching, More Teaching

"We find that the secular purposes claimed by the Board amount to a pretext for the Board's real purpose, which was to promote religion in the public school classroom, in violation of the Establishment Clause... The breathtaking inanity of the Board's decision is evident when considered against the factual backdrop which has now been fully revealed through this trial. The students, parents, and teachers of the Dover Area School District deserved better than to be dragged into this legal maelstrom, with its resulting utter waste of monetary and personal resources."

U.S. District Judge John E. Jones, rejecting the Dover, Pennsylvania school board's attempts to include "intelligent design" (reallly just warmed-over creationism with a word change here and there) in public school biology classes