"Come to think of it, they were just cheering the election of Democrats in Dover Pa a few days ago. Makes one wonder why they are on a conservative forum in the first place."
Actually, we were decrying the loss of those seats to Democrats. This is what happens when conservatives abandon science and reason and embrace irrationality, they get booted from office. Creationism (and it's ugly stepchild ID) makes Republicans look foolish. And rightly so. Hopefully the national Republican Party will take some notes and learn a lesson from Dover.
It's also what happens when a church embraces irrationality: people lose their faith.
That's one of the biggest reasons why, I as a Christian, want to see ID defeated.
To make my position clear -- although any creationist can and probably will, deny, spin, and ignore what I'm saying -- ID-creationism is electoral death to the conservative movement. If conservatism embraces this lunacy, then it will go down the drain, like the bozo school board in Dover. But I want conservatism to prevail. Which is why I want the republican party, at the top, to make the conscious decision to abandon the madness of creationism-ID.
For this limited purpose [quote miners will drop that opening phrase], I welcome the electoral situation in Dover [quote miners will end the sentence here], because it's in an out-of-the-way place involving only a local school board, so the loss is relatively harmless, but the lesson to be learned is vital. I hope the Republican party not only learns the lesson, but that we start applying the lesson immediately. If not, conservatism is going to be swept aside, like the idiotic school board in Dover.