Former Senator Rick Santorum in 2008 told the audience at a religious forum how he supposedly managed to get an amendment into No Child Left Behind that stipulates teachers must be allowed to teach both evolution — or, “intelligent design,” — and creationism to ensure “academic freedom.” (The factual basis of this claim is dubious and has yet to be investigated.) Santorum participated in a question and answer forum titled “The Press & People of Faith in Politics,â€Â hosted by the Oxford Center for Religion and Public Life. During the forum, Santorum said that the teaching of evolution is used to promote atheism.
(At that same forum, Santorum called the Democratic Party the party of sex, a party that preyed on lust, and the party of Woodstock, which he called “the great American orgy.â€)
Santorum told the audience that “what’s taught in our school system as a result of liberal academia, is evolution is an incontrovertible fact. There is no suspicion of it. It is decided science that cannot be questioned. There cannot be any doubts about it. If you have any questions or doubts, it’s trying to inject religion into the science classroom. So it is above reproach.”
Note: via Wikipedia:
Biologists agree that descent with modification [evolution] is one of the most reliably established facts in science.
“I obviously don’t feel that way. I think there are a lot of problems with the theory of evolution, and do believe that it is used to promote to a worldview that is anti-theist, that is atheist.”
“I said my amendment is about life. It’s about teaching the origins of life, and that you should have academic freedom in the classroom when you’re teaching about life.â€
“Sex is a means, evolution is a means. And the aim is a secular world. It’s a, my opinion, a hedonistic, self-focused world, that is in my opinion anti-American.
“You’re a liberal or a conservative in America if you think the 60s were a good thing or not. If the 60s was a good thing, you’re Left. If you think it was a bad thing, you’re Right.
“And the confusing thing for a lot of people that gets a lot of Americans is, when they think of the 60s, they don’t think of just the sexual revolution. But somehow or other — and they’ve been very, very, clever at doing this — they’ve been able to link, I think absolutely incorrectly, the sexual revolution with civil rights.
“As if somehow or another, they came together. When of course, the civil rights movement was a religious-based movement that had nothing to do with the sexual revolution. But they happened at the same time, when you say the 60s was a bad thing, they say ‘You’re a bigot. You’re against civil rights.’ So you have to be very careful. And the Left has used that coterminous revolution, if you will, as a way to protect themselves.”
For the record, teaching something because you want it to be true doesn’t make it true. That’s not teaching, that’s indoctrination.