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“Intelligent design is an example of some people’s religious positions being pushed on others,” says Rothschild, a practicing Jew and a public-school graduate. “I’m particularly protective of the Establishment Clause; it’s one of the bedrock principles that keeps our system of democracy working.”

In 2004, the Dover board passed a resolution that required teachers to read a disclaimer to ninth-grade biology students. “Darwin’s theory… is not a fact,” it said, offering intelligent design to students as an explanation that “differs from Darwin’s view” while urging them to “keep an open mind.”