I’ve received quite a few hate mails from creationists (and I do mean hate mail) freaking out over the posts about Charles Darwin and the deceptive agenda of “intelligent design,” and the post about Mike Huckabee’s claim that the stimulus bill is “anti-religion,” so here’s a quick statement on the matter.

There is absolutely nothing “conservative” about wanting to amend the Constitution of the United States, to make it an explicitly Christian document. This goes totally against every principle of the founding fathers — they built in protections against this kind of thing specifically to prevent what Mike Huckabee is advocating.

There is nothing “anti-Christian” about standing against this. You are absolutely entitled to believe in any God — or lack thereof — in this country. But you are not entitled to force the teaching of your beliefs into science classes as “intelligent design” or creationism or whatever name these deceptive people put on it. And they currently have efforts under way in at least ten states to do exactly that.

A true conservative respects and honors the US Constitution. He/she does not try to enshrine his/her own religious beliefs as the law of the land. There’s a name for this practice: “theocracy.” It should be repellent to anyone who really believes in conservative principles.

The reason there are a lot of posts about Charles Darwin on the front page is that it was the 200th anniversary of his birthday on Thursday — as you could easily see if you read any of what I posted on the subject. I believe it’s an important date, because Darwin was one of the most influential and brilliant scientists in all of history. And it’s sad to see so many self-labeled “conservatives” who not only don’t respect that, but feel threatened by someone who does.