[spunkets]

"Do you support or oppose federal intervention in local school curricula?"

It depends. It depends on whether, or not there's a Constitutional reason for the intervention. In this case there is. The matter is whether, or not science class and the matters of science are to be corrupted with religious influence and nonscientific claims founded in and based on religion and religious motivations. The answer is yes, because the 1st Amend. forbids it as an establishment of religion. IOWs no one is to corrupt science with nonscientific religious claims and nonscientific claims based on religious motivations.

Both creationism and ID are nonscientific. Both claim the laws of physics are insufficient to govern the world. That is not what is found scientifically. If you want to teach that to your kids, enroll them in a parochial school, or homeschool them. The first Amend. forbids forcing religion though the public school system.

[loboinok]

The first Amend. forbids forcing religion though the public school system.

I can't seem to find the constitutional amendment that grants authority over the "public school system," to the federal government.

I couldn't find anything in the first amendment mentioning "public school system," let alone forbidding religion.

[metmom]

The First Amendment also speaks very clearly about stifling the practice of religion. Many people never get past what they consider the *establishment clause*. There's an awful lot of *preventing the free exercise thereof*, going on.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.