Re: California: Judge limits case against UC

On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:23:18 -0700 (PDT), Glenn
<GlennSheldon@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mar 28, 10:06 pm, Jason Spaceman
<notrea...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From the article:
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A federal judge Friday threw out some claims of a Christian school in
Murrieta that sued the University of California system, saying
university officials discriminated against religious schools by
refusing to grant college credit for some of their courses.

Calvary Chapel Christian School and some of its students sued the UC
system in 2005. The suit claimed UC officials trampled the First
Amendment rights of Christian students by refusing to grant credit for
classes taken at the school.

The suit argued both that the university's policies were
unconstitutional on their face and that UC officials acted in a way
that violated students' rights to free speech and freedom of religion
by rejecting specific courses in biology, history, government, English
and religion.

On Friday, U.S. District Judge James Otero in Los Angeles threw out
Calvary Chapel's broader claim that the university's policies toward
approving classes were plainly unconstitutional.

The Christian school had argued the university had a policy of
rejecting courses solely because they had a religious viewpoint,
according to the judge's order. Calvary Chapel argued, for example,
that the university rejected biology courses that discuss intelligent
design or creationism alongside evolution. But Otero said the school
did not show that the university had an established practice of
rejecting such courses.

Calvary Chapel had petitioned the judge to rule that the university
had violated its students' constitutional rights by rejecting the
specific courses. However, Otero refused to do so, which means those
issues will now be decided at trial.

For instance, Calvary Christian challenged the university's decision
to reject science courses that used two Christian biology textbooks.
But Otero said the university officials had provided enough evidence
that they had sound reason to reject the textbooks ---- namely, that
the books encouraged students to reject scientific evidence ---- that
he could not rule in Calvary Chapel's favor before trial.
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Read it athttp://www.nctimes.com/articles/2008/03/28/news/californian/murrieta/...
orhttp://tinyurl.com/2g8zjx

Interesting. Seems on the surface that the judge thinks that a sound
reason to reject a student from admission to a school to be based on
what the student believes, rather than on his tested knowledge.

How very odd--- no where in the article did I find that suggested
or even hinted.

If a cult teaches its "students" that Sol orbits Terra, and then
those "students" want college credit for that teaching, why should
that credit be granted? Creationism is wrong: it therefore does
not deserve credit in college. Surely that is obvious.

Are we
to be prevented from rejecting any scientific evidence, so called?

"We?" You may reject reality if you like; college do not have that
option.

Even if we are taught and tested in a knowledge of all scientific
evidence? Hmm. Just drawing from the above statements, students had
books which identified certain scientific evidence, but encouraged
some evidence to be rejected. This says nothing about whether those
students had been provided a working knowledge of that evidence. I
wonder why.



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