It is amazing to see the development of a new 'Secular Fundamentalism' emerging in our country.  It is characterized by:

1) a blind devotion to the myth of Darwinian Evolution.

2) a commitment to censor anything that even questions that myth.

Several events over the past year point to this disturbing trend:

1) The Smithsonian's National Museaum of Natural History pulled out of showing a film called "The Privileged Planet: The Search for Purpose in the Universe".  Worst of all the Washington Post printed an editorial on this act of censorship that revealed its own secular fundamentalist bias.  Al Mohler describes the entire event well in his blog.

 2) A federal judge in Atlanta, Georgia recently ruled that a school district's stickers on textbooks referring to evolution as a "theory not a fact" were unconstitutional.  See the story here.  The sticker, he said, sends "a message that the school board agrees with the beliefs of Christian fundamentalists and creationists."  Wow, since when is honestly calling a theory "a theory" an act promoting christain fundamentalism?  There was no referrence to God on the sticker.  There was nothing remotely 'Christain' about it.  It is just another instance of Secular Fundamentalism.

 3) The current climate of Secular Fundamentalism is easily seen in the concern over flowers in Bryan Park in Richmond Virginia.  Apparently there was someone strolling through the park who became very disturbed by a 12 by 20 foot bed of azalia bushes in the shape of a cross.  The tradition of this display dates back over 50 years, but now it is seen as a threatening violation of separation of church and state.  A local paper reports this story.

4) A final example is found in the Orlando, Florida area.  Here the parents of a Palm Bay High School graduate are requesting a temporary restraining order until all religous symbols are covered or removed in the Calvary Chapel facility they are borrowing for their graduation ceremony.  The facility owners have said they will not light up the symbols during the ceremony, but apparently this is not good enough. Why, is it still too scary for them?  Could it possibly undermine their secular beliefs?   See Florida Today's site for this article.

 
Apparently secular fundamentalists are not open to reason or discussion  Their theophobia has so saturated their thinking that anyone who sees life in a different way is a threat that must be censored or sued.

For a full treatment of Secular Fundamentalism see this.