Other people such as David Limbaugh(Rush's Bro) on townhall.com (hardly a Democrat), the current Pope (hardly an anti-Christian), Bush (hardly either one of those), all 8 of the former Dover, PA school board (they were all Republicans). All of these people are far from being anti-Christian or Democrats yet they are just a few of the proponents for intelligent design.
But you are correct on one thing... it IS working on me. If it came down to a moderate Democrat vs. a pro intelligent design Republican I think the Republican just might lose my vote. I don't want to because I am staunch anti-socialist but if it was say... Joe Lieberman who ran I would give him my vote.
Re: the RCC; going by recent news stories, the science people in the Vatican are pretty much all Gensis-and-Darwin work fine together people.