Point taken, and gladly so! Much of the British press has reported your recent court case (in Pensylvania?) as a move by American 'conservatives' to introduce Biblical concepts into science teaching--but that makes no sense at all, least of all as a 'conservative' program. Here (UK) it is the socialists who are the culprits when it comes to politicising education; I have always assumed (without previously given it much thought, I admit) that the problem was the same in the US.
LOL. On this side of the pond, it seems, everyone politicizes everything.
Read a thread about Britney Spears driving with her baby in her front seat, and someone will point out her political affiliation.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1574201/posts
see #6
It is exactly the same here.
Another problem is that the MSM twists everything around to support its agenda for change, ie, Socialism, so that you would believe that everything is the fault of conservatives.
It's the same here. We have the Christian Socialists and the Social Democrats (operating under aliases).
If you get put onto Patrick Henry's ping list (see above) you can watch the fight on the right here on Free Republic -- the three camps are pretty clear -- there are science types who believe in evolution, "Religious Right" types who believe in literal Biblical interpretation, and a lot of people in between trying to make sense of it all.
My impression is that the "Religious Right" types split off from England in colonial days and came to the US in order to have religious freedom, so there aren't many left on your side of the pond.
On this side of the pond, they achieved quite a bit of temporal power before having been beaten back by the forces of modernity and secularism, which they hate, and call leftism.
If you disagree with them, you'll be accused of being a liberal troll and worse (Communist, Nazi).
All over the provenance of a few bones.