Will Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal show his quality as a conservative and as a Christian?

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, a potential McCain VP choice, has a golden opportunity to show his quality as a conservative and as a Christian.  Jindal can do this by signing into law a bill which would allow for public school teachers to discuss multiple theories of origin. The bill, which was passed overwhelmingly by the Louisiana state legislature, now sits on the desk of the Governor.

This law would help break the monopoly Darwinian Evolution has enjoyed in many schools across the country. It also opens the door for multiple views on other unproven theories such as global warming. In keeping with conservative principles, the bill does not mandate from the state level that these subjects be explored from multiple angles, but allows for it if a local school board approves it. This keeps the control of classroom content in the hands of parents and communities.

Governor Jindal recently talked about his views on Intelligent Design on Face the Nation.

The full text of the Louisiana bill can be found here. If you have time to read it, I’d recommend it. It’s not very long and it’s pretty interesting. I guess I find it interesting because it sounds like such common sense. One would just assume that teachers and schools already allow for open discussion and analysis of these unproven theories. Unfortunately, evolutionists and environmentalists have had a stranglehold on what our children are taught. Why not open up the teaching to other common American points of view?

I can already hear some people screaming that this is a violation of church and state. That’s simply not the case though. The language in the bill is very careful to point to the fact that no specific religion should be endorsed and that no specific view on these unproven theories be held as the authority. I think this is great. It’s what the founding fathers had in mind when they wrote the Establishment Clause in the First Amendment. We must stop the establishment of Darwinian Evolution and Man Made Global Warming as the official state religion!