District to stop showing religious films (July 12, 2016)

FFRF has convinced a Texas school district to take a harder stance against showing Christian propaganda and anti-evolution movies to students.

In Central Heights High School in Nacogdoches, Texas, two teachers showed their students questionable films. In a ninth-grade health class, an instructor screened “God’s Not Dead,” a movie blatantly Christian and proselytizing in nature. And in a ninth-grade science class, another teacher, remarking to his students that he didn’t believe in evolution, played “Expelled: Intelligence Not Allowed,” an intelligent design propaganda work that the New York Times described as “a conspiracy-theory rant masquerading as investigative inquiry.”

FFRF contacted the Central Heights Independent School District in May to alert school officials that the teachers were out of line. FFRF received a letter stating that district staff members will be trained on First Amendment issues to educate them better on the separation of state and church.

Freedom From Religion Foundation

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