The disease of religion continues to infect American society in a case from California.   A high school teacher (government employee) has been found guilty of “disparaging Christians” for his statement that creationism is “religious, superstitious nonsense”.   According to the court, this statement violates the First Amendment’s establishment clause which restricts the government from establishing a religion.

The most obvious point to make is that the teacher was hardly trying to establish a religion; instead, he was simply pointing out that there is no scientific basis for creationism.   This view is clearly supported since creationism is not taught in the science department.  Thus, creationism’s origins are strictly religious, lack any scientific support, and cannot be proven.

Further, the court privileged the establishment clause over the teacher’s free speech rights, also from the First Amendment.  In my view, this ruling was clearly in error and there was no violation of the establishment clause.

Hopefully, this ruling will be appealed and overturned.

The implications of this case are far reaching.  It implies that government employees cannot disparage religion, even if the belief set is not supported by science or rational thought.  This would include any religious belief you want to name — not that Christianity is not  crazy enough already — and there are hundreds of religions, if not thousands.  For example, how could you describe 911 without mentioning that the terrorists believed they were right in doing god’s will.  Plus, no more religious people disparaging atheism which the U.S. Supreme court declared is a religious belief.

America is doomed.