https://local12.com/news/local/ohio-house-passes-bill-allowing-student-answers-to-be-scientifically-wrong-due-to-religion


The Ohio House on Wednesday passed the "Student Religious Liberties Act." Under the law, students can't be penalized if their work is scientifically wrong as long as the reasoning is because of their religious beliefs.



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It sounds like a future court case to me. No one is requiring students to believe in evolution. They merely need to be able to recognize and describe the principles of the theory.

“Every Republican in the House supported the bill.”

Of course they did.

"But Teacher, 'Nanny-nanny boo-boo, I don't have to tell you' is the correct answer according to the Flying Spaghetti Monster, who I worship."

"But teacher, I belong to the Church of the Latter-day Dude, and the Dude (bless his holy name) says bowling, white Russians and weed are the answers to everything."

And so on.

I had a problem with what I was learning about evolution in biology in high school. I asked my dad about it and he said to write "accepted theory:" in front of my answer on the test. At least he didn't have a problem with my learning what I was learning. And my teacher must have just rollded his eyes and given me the answer as correct, because everything after "accepted theory" was right. Kind of embarrassing to think about it now.

But the best part is that my father also said, and these are his exact words, and he has a Master's degree in physics, "they haven't been to the temple so they don't know how it all really works." I didn't forget that because it made me more anxious to go to the temple and learn all the super secret stuff about how the world was created. Yeah, I learned "come, let us go down." That is equal to a semester of biology, right?

So they now encourage students to be scientifically illiterate. Great. Just great. Here we are in a world where scientific knowledge is critical for the technology and jobs around us.

This cripples believers so they won't be able to complete and cripples all of us in the world's advancement.

Of course, religion thrives by stifling or filtering education. Religious people are pawns for those in power because they are busy doing their sheep things hoping for rewards later.

So on a college Anthropology test a student can claim that human civilization itself is only six thousand years old, that skin color is a sign of the good or evil origins of the civilization, and that radio-carbon data is wrong because the earth itself was created less than six-thousand years ago, and not get those test answers marked wrong? What's this world coming to?

I hope those people who give or accept 'religious answers' fly on 'Religious Airlines', drive with others on 'Religious Cars' on 'Religious Highways & Streets', and chat on 'Religious phones'.

Oh yes, breathe Religious Air, eat Religious Foods, and are treated by Religious health-care workers;


Problem SOLVED!

That's hilarious.

Now teachers have to evaluate the accuracy of Hopi views on the origins of the universe. And Wicca. And Santeria. And Zoroastrianism.

What could go wrong with that?

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Will be interesting with some like Scientology or Christian Scientists - maybe Southern Baptists or Tent Revival snake handling Pentecostals.
Not sure about Muslims or Wikki types.

Can't you see a mormon kid "the sun just reflects light from Kolob to earth" and "man never made it to the moon because one of the prophets said we would never get there".

I sure hope they don't extend this privilege to 'live one's religion' to JW's who have children who require transfusions!

I predict that should this bill become law as written, homework will start rolling in from the Church of Satan; the Church of Beer; Pastafarians; the Church of Eff You, Dumbass; the Church of Pull My Finger; [church of teenagers gone wild].

Then the state will have to try to define religion, and *poof* goes the dumbass law.

I look forward to you being proven right on this. Love your answer.

What could possibly go wrong ?

"The bill's sponsor, Republican representative and ordained minister Timothy Ginter, has a history of attempting to write his religious beliefs into legislation.

"In September, he sponsored a bill that would have declared pornography a public health hazard with 'statewide and national public health impacts leading to a broad spectrum of individual and societal harms.'

"Earlier in November he also sponsored a bill that would allow taxpayers to deduct contributions made to 'pregnancy resource centers,' which have been described by the American Medical Association as 'unethical' facilities that 'seek to intercept women with unintended pregnancies who might be considering abortion.' Such centers are commonly church-run and exempt from medical oversight or licensing."

https://www.newsweek.com/ohio-student-religious-liberties-act-1472008

Ordained christian minister. What a surprise.

I identify as having given the correct answer.

The only way this could realistically work is if there was an official arbiter to decide precisely, according to Ohio law, which religions were acceptable under this law, and what specific religious beliefs were officially included--and, therefore, HAD to be accepted as legitimate answers by teachers or other graders of assignments and tests.

Otherwise, the law would include Pastafarian religion, Jehovah's Witnesses religion (as was mentioned by another poster), Native American religions, and native religions worldwide who had adherents of those beliefs living in Ohio.

And THAT, methinks, is against the clear "establishment of religion" prohibition in the U.S. Constitution.

I have two thoughts on this matter:

First, any savvy teacher can write the test questions in a way that the student has to demonstrate an understanding of the subject, even if they deny the actual veracity of it;

Second, it is stupid legislation like this that gets these issues into the courts and eventually to the SCOTUS.

I say "Thanks for the nudge dumbass science-denier-religious-zealots." The joke is on you.