I wouldn't think of it so much as what the government wants to do to intrude further as much as what the government needs to do to remove it's already overly intrusive reach. They pulled faith and belief out of schools...remember...and in its place they put they're faith and belief...science.
As one that has written extensively in both the field of quantum mechanics and theology, I believe that we need both. What good is it if we can build 100,000 hydrogen bombs and yet not be able to solve even the simplest of moral or ethical issues? Science has given us the tools and means to cut babies from wombs at a rate of 1.2 million per year, but has it solved the issues of the moral depravity of a society that can lose sight of the value of life?
Nobody can dictate morality is the mindset of a race still grappling with social alchemy instead of social science when it comes to social issues.
Anyway, the issues of faith in design, and evolution need not be so far apart. Time is as much a part of intelligent design as is any other part of creation. Who can honestly say that God didn't reach out of eternity, create Adam and Eve exactly as the bible says, and at the same time create time forward and backwards (like a stone thrown into a lake, the ripples flowing in all directions). It would make the dinosaurs just as real as you and I today; and it would make creation and evolution equally as real.
Yet somehow, instead of granting God the creative ability to under truly complex processes like patting His head and rubbing His stomach at the same time (for those that miss the sarcasm this was a spiritual inference), we have to see them as distinct and completely different.
What I fear is that this is being suggested for all the wrong reasons. Instead of trying to understand God, we want God to be created in our image and only to have been able to either create Adam and Eve, allowed evolution, exist, or not exist, but certainly not some combination of any of the above, or even worse, far more wonderful than any of us can possbily imagine.
For those that really love theology...can God both exist and not exist? The answer is both yes and no. But how can one wrestle with questions such as these when they can't even learn how to spell God in their formative years without some teacher being fired for teaching about some other god than science?