It’s raining, it’s pouring and the American Civil Liberties Union is snoring.

The Louisiana Science Education Act has been going strong since 2008, a sound law and promoter of critical thinking in the classroom.

Five years later: Not a single parent or school board across the state has filed any complaints.

The non-champion and main opponent of LSEA, State Sen. Karen Carter Peterson, a Democrat from New Orleans, targets the act annually. Peterson’s legislation failed in committee the past two years, and now she wants round three.

There are several weak arguments against the law.

James Gill of NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune stands firm on his fears and beliefs that the law is unconstitutional, and after five years without any challenge to the law, he may be there a while longer.

The first is clearly stated by Gill in his recent column on LSEA where he wrote, “The courts have slapped down every attempt to smuggle Adam and Eve into school.”

The idea of trying to “smuggle” religion into the classroom is answered by the law itself.

Section D states, “This Section shall not be construed to promote any religious doctrine, promote discrimination for or against a particular set of religious beliefs, or promote discrimination for or against religion or nonreligion.”

The media will tell you just the opposite.

Gill was guilty of misinterpreting the facts when he bashed his governor.

“We’re scared the rest of the country will think we’re all as dumb as Jindal down here,” Gill wrote.

I’m going to stick my neck out on a limb and disagree. Our Rhodes Scholar governor with a biology degree from Brown University knew what he was doing when he signed the LSEA into law.

Critics also like to claim the LSEA is unconstitutional every chance they get, but no one is willing to file suit because they have no case.

The ACLU, known for its left wing agenda, has not challenged the law. This is an indicator that they know they would lose in court and that the act was well written.

Gill’s phobias are mostly unwarranted, but the text in the act that allows for the use of “supplementary materials” poses a good question.

Clearly, the supplementation would be within the limits that the LSEA prescribes, and at the discretion of the teachers and the local school board. With that understood, what is the problem with teachers using material from outside of the classroom?

How many times have we revised textbooks due to misinformation?

Take Haeckel’s embryos for example.

Haeckel, in the late 19th century, claimed and drew diagrams of human and animal embryos intentionally fudged to appear more similar than they actually are. His diagrams were weaseled into textbooks as late as the ’90s.

The LSEA encourages “critical thinking skills, logical analysis, and open and objective discussion of scientific theories.”

There isn’t any problem with questioning or discussing the different theories around evolution, global warming or cloning and the origins of life. If anything, the LSEA extends the concept of higher thinking and education.

Modern liberalism encourages removal of all prejudice from our minds to advance society. But when it comes to academic freedom, some people just aren’t good at being liberal. Instead of encouraging students to discover and find answers to scientific theory, they would rather draw conclusions for them.

Louisiana legislators had no problem with the LSEA when it passed through the House and Senate floors with only three opposing votes.

Additionally, in the last five years, none of the foretold disasters that the left falsely prophesied about came to pass.

The silence is deafening.

No complaints from parents. No complaints from school boards. No lawsuits.

The only problem I see is the left’s fanatical obsession with controlling the classroom.