Well, there’s more creationist lunacy in Loonisiana, and this is a doozy. It all took place at Negreet High, a public school. A piece in yesterday’s Raw Story tells the tale:

The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Louisiana on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit against Negreet High School in Sabine Parish on behalf of two parents, Scott and Sharon Lane, and their son, “C.C.” The lawsuit claims the school has “a longstanding custom, policy, and practice of promoting and inculcating Christian beliefs,” including the teaching of creationism. Sixth-grade teacher Rita Roark has told her students that the universe was created by God about 6,000 years ago, and taught that both the Big Bang theory and evolution are false, according to the lawsuit. She told her students that “if evolution was real, it would still be happening: Apes would be turning into humans today.” One test she gave to students asked: “ISN’T IT AMAZING WHAT THE _____________ HAS MADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” The correct answer was “Lord,” but C.C. wrote in something else. Roark responded by scolding the boy in front of the entire class. When informed that C.C. was a Buddhist and therefore didn’t believe in God, Roark allegedly responded, “you’re stupid if you don’t believe in God.” On another accusation, she allegedly described both Buddhism and Hinduism as “stupid.” When the outraged parents confronted Sabine Parish Superintendent Sara Ebarb about the incidents, she allegedly told them “this is the Bible belt” and that they “shouldn’t be offended” to “see God here.” Ebarb advised that C.C. should either change his faith or be transferred to another District school where “there are more Asians.”

I know non-Americans (except for Canadians) will be astounded at this tale, but if you’ve traveled in the American south it’s no surprise. In fact, the parents moved “C.C.” to another school to preserve his mental health and his freedom from religious abuse.

Negreet High is apparently a hotbed of this stuff:

The lawsuit claims that other teachers and faculty members also push Christian beliefs on their students. Prayer is often lead by teachers in classrooms and during school events. Religious literature that denounces evolution and homosexuality has been distributed by faculty members to students. The school’s hallways are filled with Christian iconography and electronic marquee in front of the school scrolls Bible verses.

Remember this is a public high school.

As in so many places, this kind of intrusion of religion into public schools—a blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution—simply goes unnoticed unless someone complains. After all, most of southern children are brainwashed devout Christians, and will take creationism not only in stride, but will welcome it. There’s no way for us to know how frequent this kind of lunacy is (“Isn’t it amazing what the Lord has made!!!!!!!!!!”) unless a student complains and thereby becomes, as did C.C., a pariah.

And so the poisoning continues.

h/t: Steve