Add New Mexico to the lengthening list of states in which Republican politicians are introducing bills intended to sneak the teaching of creationism into science classes, under the deceptive mantle of “academic freedom.”

(Hat tip: wrenchwench.)

UPDATE at 2/20/09 8:41:10 pm:

And again, the creationists at the Discovery Institute provided the model for this legislation: Creationist Legislation, New Mexico Legislature, 2009 60-day Session.

This all goes back to Gov. Bobby Jindal and the Discovery Institute. When Jindal’s creationist bill succeeded in Louisiana, it emboldened Republicans all over the US to start pushing — and the Discovery Institute supplied the Wedge.