A federal judge ruled on Dec. 20 that it is illegal to teach Intelligent Design in the public school classrooms. That ruling is pure fertilizer.

The judge obviously has no use for the Declaration of Independence, which speaks of the Creator God at least four times. The judge has no respect for the First Amendment to the Constitution, which specifically provides for the free exercise of religion among the several states in our federal republic. He refuses to abide by the Tenth Amendment to our Constitution, which states plainly that those powers not delegated the United States by the Constitution are reserved to the states and to the people. And he pretends that the teaching of the theory of evolution as fact is not a religion. It obviously is. That religion is called humanism.

One need only to look up the Humanist Manifesto of 1933 and its sequel, The Humanist Manifesto II of 1973, followed by the Secular Humanist Declaration of 1980 to get the facts. Humanism rejects God, theism, deism, faith, prayer, all divine purpose or providence. As such it places itself against the providence specifically named in the Declaration of Independence. It would rather establish an atheist system like that of Soviet Russia. The world witnessed the 70-year experiment of Soviet Russia that failed so miserably and exterminated so many millions of people.

Read the Book of Judges in the Bible. When the judges rule, misery follows. Sew the wind and reap the whirlwind.

Harvey Lord, South Paris