Render to Caesar... the secularists live in the Caesar's world, and couldn't care less about religion until it intrudes on that world. See # 26.
So why would this reporter have used this tactic? That really seems to be the question here. I think everyone gets that you think ID'ers are big, dum dum, goofy, poo poo heads, or something. I think they also see that anything having to do with ID, you take to be a launching sequence for you to pronounce that ID'ers are big dum dum, goofy, poo poo heads, or something or whatever. That seems to be close to the response that Darwinists most often give ID. I don't know how many debates and exchanges I have observed where the Darwinist gets creamed, and comes off looking like an old-style religious zealot, mostly because he/she can't deal with being challenged. That is why ID is a growing movement. You guys are too busy calling people "creationists" or "neo-creationists" or big dum dum, goofy, poo poo heads, to actually engage in a debate. It's almost like they would rather try to dig up dirt on ID'ers by infiltrating their organizations than actually address the questions ID raises (it's almost like that; I mean, if we actually had an example of this, it would be one thing).