Sarah Robinson directs us to the story about a Christian academy in California that’s suing the UC system because it won’t count some of its dogma-crap courses as legitimate preparation for college. As the SF Chronicle explains,

Among the courses turned down were a history class, “Christianity’s Influence on America”; a social studies class, “Special Providence: Christianity and the American Republic”; and, most contentiously, an English course, “Christianity and Morality in American Literature.” None is being taught because of the dispute.

As Robinson points out — and as the university has made clear, despite the wounded howls of Calvary Chapel and other schools that are party to the suit — the rejection of these courses among others had less to do with the courses themselves than with the utterly bogus materials used to teach them. A quick scan of the school’s curriculum reveals nothing especially offensive on the face of it, but a deeper look at the texts used in some of the courses offers reason enough to assume that UC is on the right track here.

Here, for example, is the text for 11th grade biology, published by none other than Bob Jones University Press. The third edition of Biology, while offering no guidance on the evils of miscegenation, does hold forth on own ignorance in the first few pages of the book.

Then there’s this gem of a curriculum from the senior-level “Bible 12” course. Understanding the Times produced by Summit Ministries,

is a one or two semester video-based curriculum for 12th grade that brings a host of Christian worldview and apologetic experts into your classroom. This class will help students clearly understand the tenets of the Christian worldview and how it compares with the tenets of other leading worldviews of our day: Islam, Secular Humanism, Marxism, New Age, and Postmodernism.

Some of the issues covered include: abortion, apologetics, the arts, biotechnology, critical thinking, cults, euthanasia, leadership, radical environmentalism, radical feminism, the problem of evil, religious pluralism, scriptural reliability, and more.

Note for a brief moment the demotion of Islam to a mere “worldview.” Then watch this wanker using the collected works of supermodel Kathy Ireland to demonstrate the logical folly of the pro-choice position. Then marvel at the possibility that the University of California would acknowledge the legitimacy of any courses taught here . . .