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.
We were discussing creationists, not conservatives. No Child Left Behind is not a conservative law. Nor is the Santorum Amendment. It's an attempt to ride roughshod over the Bill of Rights.