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John Derbyshire (of \u201cThe Corner\u201d in the National Review<\/em><\/a>) had the following to say about the bill<\/a> which Governor Bobby Jindal signed into law recently, the \u201cLouisiana Science Education Act<\/a>\u201c, supposedly intended to defend \u201cacademic freedom\u201d:<\/p>\n

Whether or not the law as signed is unconstitutional per se, I do not know. I do know, though \u2014 as the creationist Discovery Institute that helped promote the Act also surely knows \u2014 that the Act will encourage Louisiana local school boards to unconstitutional behavior. That\u2019s what it\u2019s meant to do.<\/p>\n

Some local school board will take the Act as a permit to bring religious instruction into their science classes. That will irk some parents. Those parents will sue. There will be a noisy and expensive federal lawsuit, possibly followed by further noisy and expensive appeals. The school board will inevitably lose. The property owners of that school district will take the financial hit.<\/p>\n

Where will the Discovery Institute be when these legal expenses come due? Just where they were in the Dover case \u2014 nowhere! What, you were thinking that those bold warriors for truth at the Discovery Institute will help to fund the defense in these no-hope lawsuits? Ha ha ha ha ha!<\/p>\n

Helping to defend creationist school boards in federal courts is not the Discovery Institute\u2019s game. Their game is to (a) make money from those spurious \u201ctextbooks\u201d they put out, and (b) keep creationism in the news so that they don\u2019t run out of lecture gigs and wealthy funders. So far as those legal bills are concerned, Discovery Institute policy is: Let the dumb rubes fund their own stupid lawsuits. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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