Boing Boing reader Jim Tyre says,
A federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled today that the Dover Area school board violated the Constitution when it required that Intelligent Design be taught as part of the biology curriculum.
But more than that, the judge apparently found that the school board members who supported the policy lied about their true motives: "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," he wrote in his 139-page opinion.
Pending a thorough review of those 139 pages, it is unclear whether there was an mention of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Link to news story.
Joshua Shapiro adds,
The Dover "Intelligent Design" trial is over, and the good guys won! The Pennsylvania ACLU has excerpts and the full decision on their site: PDF Link. The judge fully recognized the absurdity of the ID proponents. Oh, that and acused them of lying. Not that he had much choice in the matter; they were pretty blatant. Link.
