re: #10 Political Atheist

Big picture, US Congress and big cities-You are right for sure.
Perhaps the numbers would suggest that at a local level, school boards, parish and small towns we see the creationist impulse cross political boundaries.

But here is the rub-The idea this is a right wing thing serves Dem candidates extremely well. Even those who might not fight to good fight for real science instead of creationism.

True point that it gets more complicated when we get more local and rural, however, if the right wants to stop the perception that it’s anti-science, wouldn’t it help to nominate people who aren’t hostile to science for office? I mean we have numerous R legislators on the record of likening Darwin’s theories to anything from Nazism to Marxism and everything in between. You’re right that the Dems need to fight for science rather than just using it as a fighting point against R candidates but the R’s are doing us no favors.