A lot of conservative judges have a lot of common sense and will uphold the law. My fear is, ironically, the very thing that fundies are always bitching about: “activist judges”. Roy Moore was one. If by dumb luck (or deep-South courts), they manage to get one of these separation cases up to the Supreme Court, I think we’re all screwed.

They know they’ll lose when put up to a politically middle-road or liberal judge, but one that leans towards their political side? Doing his job instead of supporting their faith-based pseudoscience?! That’s gotta STING.

It gives me “faith” in the American system of justice that it seems (with the possible exception of the SCOTUS — we will see) that fundie-approved judges in courts all across the land seem to actually be wiley libertarian-style conservatives in real life, not the fundie ten-commandments-outside-the-courtroom style conservatives the fundies were hoping for. Good for them.

It then fails miserably. ID has nothing to do with generating a rational conclusion about the evidence. It’s basically fundies throwing up their hands and saying, “We can’t figure out how this all works, so it must be a big, powerful skydaddy! QED.”