Man Sues Dept. Of Ed. Over Teaching Evolution To Aspiring Veterinarian Daughter

Dr George Beccaloni, Curator of Orthopteroidea (cockroaches, mantids, earwigs, stick insects,grasshoppers, crickets etc) & the A. R. Wallace insect collection, holding a book with a drawing of a long armed beetle, o... Dr George Beccaloni, Curator of Orthopteroidea (cockroaches, mantids, earwigs, stick insects,grasshoppers, crickets etc) & the A. R. Wallace insect collection, holding a book with a drawing of a long armed beetle, over a display case showing the original specimen collected by Wallace in London, Friday, March, 6, 2009. Wallace is largely unknown outside scientific circles, overshadowed by Charles Darwin, the man most people credit with the theory of natural selection, which explains how plants and animals evolve. One evolutionary biologist is on a quest to return him to what he sees as his rightful place in scientific history. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant) MORE LESS
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A West Virginia man has decided to sue government officials for teaching evolution in schools, saying it is hampering his daughter’s dream to become a veterinarian.

Kenneth Smith’s lawsuit says that education officials are violating the Constitution and infringing the civil rights of his daughter by “propagating” the “religion” of evolution, according to the Charleston Daily Mail.

“Their actions during the 2014-2015 school year affects my child’s future directly through the state grading system to enter college and the ability to earn economic security and a good job in her chosen veterinarian medical field of work, by being taught a faith base (evolutionary ideology) that just doesn’t exist and has no math to back it,” the lawsuit reportedly said.

Acting as his own lawyer, Smith filed suit at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia on May 12, suing everyone from the state Superintendent to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, the Mail reported.

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  1. Another nuisance sovereign citizen lawsuit…

  2. A Dunning-Kruger case study. “Acting as his own lawyer…” Yeah, he’s acting all right.

    Then again, I “have no math to back it” either.

  3. Dammit! He’s on to us! I knew we shouldn’t have taught people about math. Now they’ll know how to expose our secular religion for the bed of lies it really is.

    Shut it down, people! Evolution is over. Our only hope is to pray to Satan that he provide us some other way to undermine Christianity and destroy society. And we were so close too, if it weren’t for this meddling West Virginian and his self-taught education.

  4. This should help his daughter’s future employment immensely.

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