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This year, however, a film has appeared that has surpassed all expectations. "The Celluloid Closet," directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman and based on the book by the late Vito Russo, is thorough, honest, coherent and artful. Tackling the tricky, complicated question of gay Hollywood, the creators of this...
The Constitution protects their right to express that view, of course. But in decisions dating back at least 30 years, courts have ruled that the separation of church and state forbids religious groups to make the Bible part of the public-school curriculum. That hasn't stopped folks from trying...
It's a tactic that appears to be working. Just last week the Tennessee state assembly voted on a bill that would require schools to fire teachers who present evolution as if it were a scientific fact. (The measure, which had been expected to pass, was sent back to committee...
The new approach dates to a landmark 1987 Supreme Court ruling. In Edwards v. Aguillard, the court overturned a Louisiana law that required creationism to be taught alongside evolution. At the same time, it opened a creationist loophole by stipulating that schools could teach "a variety of scientific theories about...
The reason, scientists say, is that there is no controversy, except among Bible literalists. It's true that evolution is "just a theory." So is Einstein's theory of relativity, the theory of plate tectonics and the theory of subatomic particles. Yet no one argues that teachers should present alternatives...