"There is no academic freedom of the teacher to do that," Smith argued. "This is not a case about industrial hemp. It's not a case about the Iraqi war. Political sociological viewpoint is something completely different."

Is the school arguing that hemp and the Iraq war are topics of political/sociological points of view permissible within the context of a science classroom while christian evoltion is not? If the teacher's attorney had any guts she could argue that given the times we live in christian evolutionary theory absolutely is s socio-political point of view. As long as he was not teaching rather than opining in a fashion similar to how would be done discussing the permissible subjects above, nor testing the class on that part of the lecture, maybe there's a bit of wiggle room Constitutionally speaking?

" christian evoltion "
That's some nice oxymoron you've got right there.

I was paraphrasing the school's attorney who said, "teach evolution from a Christian perspective," taking his assumption as given that it was possible to "teach evolution from a Christian perspective." I was offering no opinion as to the validity of that assumption.