Santorum: Don't put intelligent design in classroom

I found this little story off of Shakespeare's Sister's website. It is a story from the Beaver County Times Online:

BEAVER FALLS - U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum said Saturday that he doesn't believe that intelligent design belongs in the science classroom.

Santorum's comments to The Times are a shift from his position of several years ago, when he wrote in a Washington Times editorial that intelligent design is a "legitimate scientific theory that should be taught in the classroom."

But on Saturday, the Republican said that, "Science leads you where it leads you."

Santorum was in Beaver Falls to present Geneva College President Kenneth A. Smith with a $1.345 million check from federal funds for renovations that include the straightening and relocation of Route 18 through campus.

Santorum's comments about intelligent design come at a time when the belief that the universe is so complex that it must have been created by a higher power, an alternative to the theory of evolution, has come under fire on several fronts.

A federal trial just wrapped up in which eight families sued Dover Area School District in eastern Pennsylvania. The district's school board members tried to introduce teaching intelligent design into the classroom, but the families said the policy violated the constitutional separation of church and state.

Talk about ducking for political cover. Santorum is the number three man in the Republican Part, and is one of the more conservative members of the Senate. He has been one of the more loyal partisans for the Bush White House. And because of this loyalty, and his extreme conservative views, Santorum has been watching his poll numbers slip during his re-election bid. He is out of touch with the mainstream voters. So what's an embattled senator suppose to do? Well, let's just completely change our opinion of intelligent design, and hope the voters will forgive and forget.

Let's hope the voters see through this charade.