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Friday, December 23, 2005

Rick Santorum Flippity-Flopped On Intelligent Design

My muse, the dumbest Senator in America, Rick Santorum, has flippity-flopped on the Intelligent Design. I guess after a conservative, George W. Bush appointed Judge ripped the ID supporters' argument a new asshole and the entire school board of Dover, PA was voted out, the political winds for Intelligent Design shifted.

Here's an article from slate.com:
The Santorum Monkey Trial
A senator turns tail on intelligent design.
By William Saletan
Updated Friday, Dec. 23, 2005

Intelligent design is becoming a hot issue in Pennsylvania's Senate race. Rick Santorum, the Senate's third-highest-ranking Republican, sits on the board of the Thomas More Law Center, which led the fight for ID in Dover, Pa. He also praised the Dover school district for trying to "teach the controversy of evolution." Now that the case has led to a court ruling that eviscerated ID, Santorum says the center "made a huge mistake in taking this case," and he's going to quit its board. Santorum 2002: "Intelligent design is a legitimate scientific theory that should be taught in science classes." Santorum 2005: "I'm not comfortable with intelligent design being taught in the science classroom." Reaction from Santorum's challenger: He's an ideologue or a weasel, take your pick.

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