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Civil rights action says the system's admissions policy discriminates against students who are taught creationism and religious viewpoints.

By David Rosenzweig, Times Staff Writer

Amid the growing national debate over the mixing of religion and science in America's classrooms, University of California admissions officials have been accused in a federal civil rights lawsuit of discriminating against high schools that teach creationism and other conservative Christian viewpoints.

The suit was filed in Los Angeles federal court Thursday by the Assn. of Christian Schools International, which represents more than 800 religious schools in the state, and by the Calvary Chapel Christian School in Murrieta, which has an enrollment of more than 1,000.

Under a policy implemented with little fanfare a year ago, UC admissions authorities have refused to certify high school science courses that use textbooks challenging Darwin's theory of evolution, the suit says.

Other courses rejected by UC officials include "Christianity's Influence in American History," "Christianity and Morality in American Literature" and "Special Providence: American Government."

The 10-campus UC system requires applicants to complete a variety of courses, including science, mathematics, history, literature and the arts. But in letters to Calvary Chapel, university officials said some of the school's Christian-oriented courses were too narrow to be acceptable.

According to the lawsuit, UC's board of admissions also advised the school that it would not approve biology and science courses that relied primarily on textbooks published by Bob Jones University Press and A Beka Books, two Christian publishers.

Instead, the board instructed the schools to "submit for UC approval a secular science curriculum with a text and course outline that addresses course content/knowledge generally accepted in the scientific community."

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I run a school that teaches my students that the earth was created by God in six days about 5,000 years ago and then I demand that the state universities credit those courses toward admission.

And this is hostility toward Christianity.

And they call liberals "moonbats."

[ 27 August 2005: Message edited by: Américain Égalitaire ]

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but you know, it's their parents who are pushing for creationism to be taught in science class.

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Originally posted by Michelle:
But you can bet that, after a few years of no children being accepted by high school A, B, and C at such-and-such county, the parents will be clamouring for real science courses instead of BlowJob U science texts.

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