“An anti-evolution group is suing the Kansas State Board of Education for instituting a science curriculum that teaches evolution.

The nonprofit Citizens for Objective Public Education filed a lawsuit Thursday to block the board, education commissioner and Department of Education from teaching science classes consistent with new educational benchmarks developed by 26 states to align school systems across the U.S. These Next Generation Science Standards, which Kansas adopted in June, have seen fierce opposition from critics opposed to the teaching of climate change and evolution.

Citizens for Objective Public Education argues in its lawsuit that the standards promote atheism and therefore violate the separation of church and state.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.

*Read more here from Rebecca Klein / The Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/27/kansas-evolution-lawsuit_n_4005717.html

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