UNDER FIRE

UNDER FIRE

What’s in dispute

Excerpts being criticized from the 10th edition of the textbook “American Government” by James Wilson and John Dilulio:

“Science doesn’t know whether we are experiencing a dangerous level of global warming or how bad the greenhouse effect is, if it exists at all.”

“Since 1947, the [U.S. Supreme] Court has applied the wall-of-separation theory to strike down as unconstitutional every effort to have any form of prayer in public schools, even if it is nonsectarian, voluntary or limited to reading a passage of the Bible.”

“The [2003 Lawrence v. Texas] decision had a benefit and a cost. The benefit was to strike down a law that was rarely enforced and if introduced today probably could not be passed. The cost was to create the possibility that the Court, and not Congress or state legislatures, might decide whether same-sex marriages were legal.”

Source: “American Government” by James Wilson and John Dilulio