Desperate Santorum makes play

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Desperate Santorum makes play for post-Enlightenment Era voter bloc …

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.”

Actually, to insulate themselves from charges of liberal bias aren’t journalists supposed to refer to this as “what some Democrats refer to as ‘science'”?

Just asking.

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