Don’t be fooled. It isn’t about “fairness” or “teaching the controversy”, it’s about corrupting and destroying the educational system. David Neiwert has an excellent post up that puts the Intelligent Design movement in context:

Probably the real reason that public schools face such withering fire is that fundamentalists have come to what is almost certainly a correct conclusion: that their real enemy, in the battle for hearts and minds, is education. The fundamentalist approach to the world is built on faith; its thinkers begin with what the tenets of their faith as the core of what they believe, and then go about finding “facts” to support those beliefs. The educated approach—especially the scientific approach—is to gather facts first, with an open mind, and then to synthesize through logic a model that explains things. The two styles of thought are diametrically opposed and, ultimately, irreconcilable.