Santorum To Jesus: Drop Dead !

These are sad days indeed for the ID crowd.

You know, the gang that believes that dinosaurs roamed the earth in 1952 while Jesus ran the local grocery store and handed out root beer candies to all the kids.

Something like that, I'm not clear on all the details as I've yet to read all of the rigorous scientific evidence that's gone into proving the existence of Intelligent Design.

First the voters of Dover, PA decided to throw out the school board that had worked so hard to push Creati...I mean, Bamboozilum, onto the educational agenda.

Then a federal judge ruled that the district's policy on Bamboozilum was unconstitutional, adding insult to injury.

But the absolute worst, the lowest of low points, had to be when the erstwhile Senator Rick Santorum, author of Women Should Be Saddled And Ridden Like A Horse Because Jesus Said So, champion of all things Biblical and Jimmy Olsen to Jesus's Superman, turned on the Bamboozilites.

Santorum, who had earlier praised the Dover School Board for teaching "the controversy of evolution," told the Associated Press, three days before Jesus's birthday yet, that he was troubled by testimony indicating that religion might have been a motivating force behind the adoption of Bamboozilum.

According to the AP, Santorum said ''I thought the Thomas More Law Center made a huge mistake in taking this case and in pushing this case to the extent they did," and he said he would end his affiliation with the center.

"Santorum was on the advisory board of the Michigan-based Thomas More Law Center, which defended the district's policy. The law center describes its mission as defending the religious freedom of Christians."

Rick had this startlingly secular vision one day after US District Judge John E. Jones ruled that the Dover district's policy of requiring students to hear a statement in biology class about intelligent design was ''a pretext . . . to promote religion."

Et tu, Santorus?

I've got to tell you, Rick, you've got a lot to learn about gift-giving. If it was three days before my birthday, and you went to the press and said that you'd been having second thoughts about teaching that I created the heavens and the earth, well, you might not receive another invitation from me.

In fact, that already seems to be happening. The American Family Association of Pennsylvania, one of those groups that seems to be dedicated to posting poor reviews of Brokeback Mountain, has already accused the Senator of "backwatering on this issue since August when he stated he did not believe Intelligent Design should be taught in the classroom."

"The majority of Americans understand what is at stake and want the controversy to be taught. They want their child's teachers to have the academic freedom to openly discuss Evolution, Intelligent Design and even Creationism. The majority of Americans, and especially Pennsylvanians, do not agree with Senator Rick Santorum or Judge John E. Jones."

I'd be especially interested in attending those classes that detail the huge canyon-like gulf of differences between Intelligent Design and Creationism. That must be a semester's worth of study right there.

In the meantime, forge ahead, brothers and sisters, forge ahead. Ignore those tribulations on either side of us and the roadblocks on the horizon.

Onward, to the new Bamboozilum!