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Occasionally an ACLU chapter does side with a Christian student.  The ACLU of Michigan defended a Christian student seeking to have a Biblical passage on the student's yearbook page.<ref>http://www.aclu.org/studentsrights/expression/12845prs20040511.html</ref>

Occasionally an ACLU chapter does side with a Christian student.  The ACLU of Michigan defended a Christian student seeking to have a Biblical passage on the student's yearbook page.<ref>http://www.aclu.org/studentsrights/expression/12845prs20040511.html</ref>

==ACLU and Evolution==

==ACLU, Evolution, and the Establishment Clause==

The ACLU filed a lawsuit, ''Selman v. Cobb County Sch. Dist.'', against a school district in Cobb County Georgia, for putting stickers in biology textbooks that said, "This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully and critically considered."<ref>Ariel Hart, "Stickers Put in Evolution Text Are the Subject of a Federal Trial," New York Times, November 9, 2004</ref> The ACLU lawsuit was ostensibly in behalf of indignant parents, but any monetary award would be paid to the ACLU. The trial judge ruled in favor of the ACLU,<ref>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/01/13/evolution.textbooks.ruling/</ref> but his ruling was vacated on appeal.<ref>http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/ops/200510341.pdf</ref> The case was eventually settled, with the stickers being removed, and the school district agreeing that it would never again make "any disclaimers regarding evolution orally, in writing, or by any other means".<ref>Cobb County School District press release, consent judgment, and order.[http://www.cobb.k12.ga.us/news/2006/20061219_StickerAgreement.pdf]</ref> An ACLU press release suggested that its motives were to "ensure that their children receive proper science education" and to stop any message that evolutionists are political outsiders.<ref>http://www.aclu.org/religion/intelligentdesign/27745prs20061219.html</ref> But the ACLU did not mention that it also demanded huge attorney fees and collected $166,659 for its lawyers from the school district.<ref>http://www.georgiascience.org/2006/12/21/board-right-to-finally-pull-plug-on-sticker-case/</ref>

The ACLU filed a lawsuit, ''Selman v. Cobb County Sch. Dist.'', against a school district in Cobb County Georgia, for putting stickers in biology textbooks that said, "This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully and critically considered."<ref>Ariel Hart, "Stickers Put in Evolution Text Are the Subject of a Federal Trial," New York Times, November 9, 2004</ref> The ACLU lawsuit was ostensibly in behalf of indignant parents, but any monetary award would be paid to the ACLU. The trial judge ruled in favor of the ACLU,<ref>http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/01/13/evolution.textbooks.ruling/</ref> but his ruling was vacated on appeal.<ref>http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/ops/200510341.pdf</ref> The case was eventually settled, with the stickers being removed, and the school district agreeing that it would never again make "any disclaimers regarding evolution orally, in writing, or by any other means".<ref>Cobb County School District press release, consent judgment, and order.[http://www.cobb.k12.ga.us/news/2006/20061219_StickerAgreement.pdf]</ref> An ACLU press release suggested that its motives were to "ensure that their children receive proper science education" and to stop any message that evolutionists are political outsiders.<ref>http://www.aclu.org/religion/intelligentdesign/27745prs20061219.html</ref> But the ACLU did not mention that it also demanded huge attorney fees and collected $166,659 for its lawyers from the school district.<ref>http://www.georgiascience.org/2006/12/21/board-right-to-finally-pull-plug-on-sticker-case/</ref>