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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (82642)9/7/2008 10:50:52 AM
From: neolib  Read Replies (1) of 541658
 
I have seen later statements to the contrary.

Google John McCain Intelligent Design

I have not found any statements since then where he expresses a view that intelligent design should be banned from science classes. He has actually repeated his support for teaching all viewpoints since the original statement.

Let's say he (or any other President) actually wanted to push for teaching intelligent design, how might he make that happen?

Bush has already stated his support for teaching ID. The main thing a President does on this front is provide a beacon for those advocating this. What do you think a bright, eager, 6'th grader does when Mommy & Daddy tell them that the next section of science class is likely bunk, and the President of the USA thinks so as well?

Currently the federal courts have been holding things in check. A president might also effect that longer term. It is a very well known goal of many evangelical activists to see the separation of church & state barrier reduced. They have twisted the current legal view to be one of hostility to religion, and claim that all they are trying to do is make the law neutral to religion. But neutral in their view, is very pro-religion, and pro only one religion, in my view.

So the President can have quite an effect on this, and I will not vote for fraud in science.
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