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He was speaking as a private citizen.
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- Ready. - Go.
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He was speaking in defense of an amendment
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he offered in 2001 when he was a US Senator,
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making it a federal law that, "Where topics are taught
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that may generate controversy, such as biological evolution,
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the curriculum should help students to understand
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the full range of scientific views that exist."
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By full range of scientific views,
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- he's including Genesis, right? - That's right.
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It seems like far from objecting that religion
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be brought up in political campaigns, he's insisting on it.