Senate Leader Agrees With Bush, Favors Intelligent Design in Schools
Saturday, Aug. 20, 2005
Posted: 9:30:28AM EST

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) said he was for teaching “intelligent design” along with evolution in public schools, two days after defending his recent choice to push for the expansion of federal funding for stem cell research.

The senator made the comments on Thursday while visiting a Rotary Club meeting in Nashville, Tenn., where he said that students should be exposed to varying ideas.

"I think today a pluralistic society should have access to a broad range of fact, of science, including faith," he said according to the Associated Press. "I think having kids exposed to both doesn't force any particular theory on anyone. I think in a pluralistic society that is the fairest way to go about education and training people for the future."

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