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Discuss “What would Flying Spaghetti Monster do?”

Dover, Pa., is a small town, just west of York and a little south of Harrisburg. The school district there has some 2800 students in grades K through 12, students who are much like us. Except for one thing: When these students reach the ninth grade, their biology classes will include the subject of ?intelligent design,? a non-scientific theory that tries to teach creationism, only using ?secular terms.?

They?re joined by various students from Ohio, New Mexico, Wisconsin, Georgia, Tennessee, Maryland, Illinois, Montana, and Kansas in having their First Amendment rights threatened by school board members who can?t tell the difference between church and state.

Certainly, it?s only expected that groups like the American Civil Liberties Union...

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