It is Mr. Brooks who has inserted religion into the debate.
The compromise would insert religion more deeply into the legislative and judicial process by elaborating new guidelines to interpret "the principles of Islamic law" that the old Constitution had recognized, at least nominally, as the main source of Egyptian legislation.
The research is funded by the Templeton Foundation, an organisation keen to find, or to insert, religion into science and to promote belief in their compatibility – which, note, comes down to spending money on "showing" in the end that the beliefs of ancient goatherds are as good as modern physics.
Bloom told a local ABC affiliate that he did not intend to insert religion into the classroom, but rather to expand students' academic freedoms.
Notably, the curriculum standards also say that students should be able to identify Moses as someone who informed America's founding documents -- a point that critics say is an example of the SBOE trying to insert religion into the classroom.
"I think the last thing we need is religion inserted into this dispute," he said at a news conference.
(The words that would be added to state discrimination laws are "sexual orientation, gender identity," inserted between "race, color, religion, sex" and "or national origin").
Disregarding the Establishment Clause doesn't just permit your favorite religion to insert itself into public schools.
The Swiss Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, but the rightist Swiss People's Party, or S.V.P., and a small religious party had proposed inserting a single sentence banning the construction of minarets, leading to the referendum.
