This is surprising. A man who worries about man-on-dog sex obviously doesn't believe in evolution. He shouldn't be holding back for obviously political resons.

Senator to Cut Ties Over Evolution Lawsuit
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 22 (AP) - Senator Rick Santorum said Wednesday that he would withdraw his affiliation with the Thomas More Law Center, which had defended the Dover Area School District's policy mandating the teaching of intelligent design in science classes dealing with evolution.

Mr. Santorum, Republican of Pennsylvania, earlier praised the district for "attempting to teach the controversy of evolution."

But the day after a federal judge ruled the district's policy on intelligent design unconstitutional, calling it a pretext "to promote religion" in public schools, Mr. Santorum told The Philadelphia Inquirer that he was troubled by testimony indicating that religion had motivated some board members to adopt the policy.

The leading Democratic challenger in Mr. Santorum's 2006 re-election battle, Robert P. Casey Jr., the state treasurer, wasted no time in accusing the senator of backtracking on intelligent design. Proponents of intelligent design hold that living organisms are so complex that they must have been created by a higher force rather than evolving from more primitive forms.