First Amendment, Neutrality, Atheism, and Evolution

[Patrick]

@vjtorley

You’re a secular humanist and an atheist. Fine. You don’t sound too keen on free speech or freedom of religion, judging from the following excerpt:

I am very keen on our American rights of free speech and freedom of religion. How you can say otherwise by any of my work or writings is beyond reproach.

@vjtorley

First of all, the phrase “freedom of thought” isn’t even in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights.

Freedom of speech, religion, and press combined is referred to as Freedom of Thought or Freedom of Expression.

@vjtorley

If you can cite even a single Supreme Court decision which limits a professor’s right to express his/her religious views on campus, then I’d like to hear it. And you can chant the mantra, “non-establishment clause,” until you’re blue in the face, but the Supreme Court simply doesn’t agree with your interpretation of free speech.

Try this one: Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case that ruled it is unconstitutional for state officials (teachers and administrators) to compose an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools.