"If we leave religion out completely, we cheat our students out of a good education, and we don't prepare them to live in a world in which religion is very important. The question is, how do we do it properly?"

"We find that the federal obscenity statutes burden an individual's fundamental right to possess, read, observe and think about what he chooses in the privacy of his own home by completely banning the distribution of obscene materials."

"And we look at such people and we shake our heads and sigh, trying to understand how excruciating it must be to go through life feeling as though you're stuck like a pinned bug to a perverted universe that can't be trusted, one that they desperately hope will be over real soon now, just like the 'Left Behind' books promise..."

"Maybe Janet Jackson will pull that gold medallion out of her nipple and pin it on his collar when he leaves."

"A: No, no, I mean 'complicated' as in 'complex.' DNA, cellular biology, etc. It's all so complex that their [sic] HAD to be a designer.

Q: Oh. Like God?
A: Not necessarily. Just an 'intelligence.' A lot of ID people are very careful to point out that they are scientists, and positing an 'intelligence' that created life doesn't mean 'God.' Could be anything.

Q: Like a giant lobster.
A: Sure. Like a giant lobster.

Q: Or space aliens? Or a totally, like, super-smart cherry pie?
A: ... I suppose.

"As Americans surely are aware, there is great hostility in the world today to cultural domination in which a single value system created elsewhere diminishes and degrades local cultures. There is also a vast and violent global culture war raging between the forces of modernism and fundamentalism, a battle whose outcome cannot be known. In this context, it is astonishingly unwise for an agency of the U.S. government to engage in an investigation that could label a presentation of the Greek origins of civilization as unfit for television viewing."

"Due to the manner in which the sticker refers to evolution as a theory, the sticker also has the effect of undermining evolution education to the benefit of those Cobb County citizens who would prefer that students maintain their religious beliefs regarding the origin of life."

"I just saw ran across this kiddie book. Probably won't be long before complaints from Concerned Parents hit the news somewhere."

"I read it. I don't see the academic value in it. Everything presented to the kids should be positive or historical, not negative."

"To me, it is all about death. The lady writes well, but when it comes to the ideas in that book, they have no place in my kid's head."