Georgia - stickers must go!

By Jack Krebs

This just in from CNN

Judge: Evolution stickers must be removed from textbooks

Thursday, January 13, 2005 Posted: 11:42 AM EST (1642 GMT)

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) – A U.S. District Court judge has ruled that a school district in suburban Atlanta, Georgia, must remove an evolution disclaimer inside textbooks.

The stickers inside the Cobb County School District’s science books said “Evolution is a theory not a fact.”

The ruling issued by U.S. District Judge Clarence Cooper said the stickers violate the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

Parents in Cobb County, a politically conservative area northwest of Atlanta, and the American Civil Liberties Union had challenged the stickers in court, arguing they violated the constitutional separation of church and state.

You can get the entire ruling in a 2 mb pdf file here.