Santorum and Intelligent Design
OK I HAVE HAD IT!!!!!
People are saying that Santorum is flip-flopping on the Intelligent design issue. This is not so.
Rather Senator Santorum has maintained that intelligent design can be taught in schools not that intelligent design should be mandated in schools.
This is why Senator Santorum opposed the Dover school districts decision to mandate the teaching of intelligent design in their schools. Santorum simply thinks that the school board shouldn't tell Science teachers that they MUST teach intelligent design.
Santorum broke his ties with the Thomas More Law Center because rather than promoting the scientific aspects of intelligent design their motivations for representing the Dover school district were largely religious, which would be inappropriate for a science class room.
Casey will try to make hay out of this because that's what candidates who don't want to reveal what they think do. The criticism is disingenuous. Santorum has not changed his position, he has applied it to a new circumstance and he has, in my estimation, done so correctly.
Comments on "Santorum and Intelligent Design"
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Anonymous said ... (1/06/2006 02:38:04 AM) :
post a commentSo Rick agrees with the current situation that it's OK to MANDATE that Evolution be taught even though Charles Darwin would reject it as it is taught today but it is UNCONSTITUTIONAL to mandate that other theories, intelligent design included, be taught along side Evolution...and Rick thinks that's the proper position to take? Maybe school boards should stop MANDATING that English and history and math be taught as well, and let teachers teach whatever they choose. Funny, I thought the school board had the obligation to establish policy regarding such matters.