Twisting legalities like they were the Bible
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Pirate modearchy quotes an interesting attempt at a law:
SB 6500 Finds that the teaching of the theory of evolution in the common schools of the state of Washington is repugnant to the principles of the Declaration of Independence and thereby unconstitutional and unlawful. Provides that all textbooks and curriculum that teach the theory of evolution shall be removed from the public schools forthwith and replaced with textbooks and curriculum that teach the self-evident truth of creation.
Gee, and here I thought the Constitution was the foundation for our law, and that the Declaration was a rationale for rebellion. So can we also use Article XI of the Treaty of Tripoli—"the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion"—to get the religious tax exemption revoked?
Like I said earlier (Fred H. thread): Why do the wingnuts focus on the Declaration of Independence and not the Constitution? We often see this played out during education standards fights and in the political arena. So far no one has given me a good reason for wingers preferring the rather radical Declaration over the the (also radical but less obviously so) Constitution.