Google the Santorum Amendment.
Oh, for heavens' sake!
Truth hurts, doesn't it?
####Google the Santorum Amendment.####
It applies to public schools. However, I'm opposed to the entire No Child Left Behind Act, including that amendment.
####Truth hurts, doesn't it?####
You know better than that. I'm not a young earth creationist. I'm not anti-Darwin. I'm not against teaching evolution, though I have my doubts about the theory. I just get tired of the constant running to judges, the silly arguments that giving a few minutes of class time to ID constitutes a "war against science", and the patently absurd assertion that a sticker on a textbook suggesting that kids study evolution with an open mind constitutes a violation of the United States Constitution. Not to mention that a teacher who told his class, for example, that men and women have different ranges of abilities (a perfectly defensible scientific position) would be fired, and the National Center for Scientific Education wouldn't do a damn thing about it.
By the way, I should also have added that once the left takes an issue away from states, localities, and the voters, and places them in federal hands, conservatives are then forced to play that game as well.
For example, I wish abortion and gay issues weren't federal issues, but the left has made abortion a federal issue and is hell-bent on making gay issues federal as well. Once that happens, conservatives have no choice but to take the battle to the federal level since states are powerless against federal courts and federal decrees.
The reason evolution is a federal issue is because the evolutionists made it one. Unfortunately, Santorum picked up the fight once it was brought into his lap.