The final text of the Santorum Amendment as included in the Conference Report reads:

Along with the Academic Bill of Rights, the Santorum Amendment and its " Teach the Controversy " approach is viewed by some academics as a threat to academic freedom.

* Professor Ken Miller's claim that the Discovery Institute wrongly stated the Santorum Amendment was part of the Education Bill.

Johnson is best known as one of the founders of the intelligent design movement, principal architect of the Wedge Strategy, author of the Santorum Amendment, and one of the ID movement's most prolific authors.

" Working through the Center for Science and Culture Johnson wrote the early draft language of the Santorum Amendment, which encouraged a " Teach the Controversy " approach to evolution in public school education.

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In December 2001, the United States Congress passed the No Child Left Behind Act, which contained the following statement of policy, called the Santorum Amendment, authored by Johnson:

Johnson is commonly presented as the movement's " father " and architect of the center's Wedge strategy and " Teach the Controversy " campaign, as well as the Santorum Amendment.

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She cited the pro-intelligent design Santorum Amendment as supporting her effort.

Readers of blog then provided links to archived recordings of Twin Cities Public Television broadcasts from 2003 showing Yecke saying that teaching intelligent design was a decision local school districts could undertake and teaching intelligent design is supported by the Santorum Amendment.

Santorum has played a crucial role in promoting intelligent design through his Santorum Amendment ; however, following the Center's defeat in the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District case ( see below ), Santorum resigned from the Law Center's advisory board.

Sen. Rick Santorum was one of intelligent design's most vocal supporters on Capitol Hill.

One result of this briefing was that in 2001 Senator Santorum proposed incorporating pro-intelligent design language, crafted in part by the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, into the No Child Left Behind bill.

Santorum then went on to quote David DeWolf, a Senior Fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, as how the Institute's agenda was justified and would benefit students.

In response to criticisms of the Institute stating that the amendment was a federal education policy requiring inclusion of alternatives to evolution be taught, which it was not, in 2003 intelligent design's three most prominent legislators, John Boehner, Judd Gregg and Santorum provided a letter to the Discovery Institute giving it the go ahead to invoke the amendment as evidence of " Congress's rejection of the idea that students only need to learn about the dominant scientific view of controversial topics ".

The couple hosted Cheney at a private political fundraiser for Republican Senator Rick Santorum who was up for reelection in 2006 against former state treasurer Bob Casey, Jr. who was born and raised in Scranton, a city just north of Jackson Township.

Santorum ultimately lost in a landslide to Casey, who defeated Santorum and was elected Senator by a 59 % to 41 % margin.

" After the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee demanded that Santorum resign as chairman of the Republican Senate Caucus, Concerned Women for America released a statement criticizing the " gay thought police " and saying Santorum was " exactly right.

During an interview with " Morning Joe " on MSNBC on Feb. 21, 2012, Reverend Graham said that Rick Santorum was most closely aligned to Christian values in his words and deeds and that Senator Santorum was certainly a Christian at heart.

The group said Santorum was " exactly right " and attributed criticism of Santorum to the " gay thought police ".

In a follow-up statement released after the Associated Press interview was published, Santorum said some of his remarks were " taken out of context ", and defended his comments in the interview asserting " It is simply a reflection of the law.

" In an interview with Fox News Channel, Santorum said he was not going to apologize for his remarks, " I do not need to give an apology based on what I said and what I'm saying now – I think this is a legitimate public policy discussion.

In 2011, during his presidential campaign, Santorum requested Google's assistance to end the return of certain search results, but Google said there was nothing it could do.

In proposing the amendment, Santorum addressed the Congress:

Phillip E. Johnson, retired UC Berkeley law professor, leading proponent of intelligent design, founding advisor of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture, and " father " of the intelligent design movement, assisted Santorum in phrasing the amendment.

As an example, the reviewer points out that a success story cited by Santorum as an example of a single mother getting off welfare actually showcases a number of strategies the senator opposes — leaving the children's father, use of public shelters, and use of welfare to support the family while getting an education, rather than leaving school to take a job.

In 2005, Senator Rick Santorum ( R-PA ) introduced the National Weather Service Duties Act of 2005, a bill intended to limit the NWS's ability to provide data that could be given by commercial outlets, but at a cost to generate private profit.

The Senate first approved the bill ( S. 686 CPS ) on Palm Sunday, March 20, on a 3-0 voice vote of Senators Bill Frist ( R-TN ), Rick Santorum ( R-PA ), and Mel Martinez ( R-FL ).

Republican Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas sponsored both United States Senate bills ; Senators Joe Lieberman ( D-Conn .), Lindsey Graham ( R-S. C .), Rick Santorum ( R-Pa .), George Allen ( R-Va .) initially co-sponsored the bill at its reintroduction in January 26, 2005.

Santorum has also stated that the military's " Don't ask, don't tell " policy, which ended in 2011, should be reinstated and has voiced his opposition of same-sex parenting.

In the interview by Associated Press reporter Lara Jakes Jordan, when asked for his position on the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal, Santorum said that the scandal involved priests and post-pubescent men in " a basic homosexual relationship " ( rather than child sexual abuse ), which led the interviewer to ask if homosexuality should be outlawed.

Santorum then brought up the then-pending U. S. Supreme Court case Lawrence v. Texas, which challenged a Texas sodomy law, and said that " he did not have a problem with homosexuals, but a problem with homosexual acts ", " the right to privacy doesn't exist in my opinion in the United States Constitution ", and " sodomy laws properly exist to prevent acts which undermine the basic tenets of our society and the family.

LGBT rights groups which condemned the comments by Santorum included the Pennsylvania Gender Rights Coalition, OutFront, the Center for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights, and the Human Rights Campaign.

In the 2012 U. S. presidential election, Gallagher endorsed Republican primary candidate Rick Santorum, an endorsement which was promoted by the Santorum campaign.

The result was a deep split in the state Democratic party, which contributed to the election of the conservative Republican Rick Santorum in 1994.

In the summer of 2005, ISI Books, the imprint of ISI, published It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good, by Pennsylvania Republican Senator Rick Santorum, which premiered at # 13 on the New York Times best sellers list.

On April 14, 2005 U. S. Senator Rick Santorum ( R-PA ) introduced the " National Weather Service Duties Act of 2005 " in the U. S. Senate.

President George W. Bush signs The Flight 93 National Memorial Act in the Oval Office Standing with the President are Pennsylvania Congressman Sen. Rick Santorum, far left ; Rep. John Murtha, center ; and Sen. Arlen Specter.

The bipartisan Workplace Religious Freedom Act ( WRFA ) was introduced in the United States Senate by Senator Rick Santorum ( R-Pennsylvania ) and Senator John Kerry ( D-Massachusetts ) on March 17, 2005, and in the House of Representatives by Representatives Mark Souder ( R-IN ), Carolyn McCarthy ( D-NY ), Bobby Jindal ( R-LA ), and Anthony Weiner ( D-NY ).

Co-sponsored by Representatives Roy Blunt ( R-MO ), and Steny Hoyer ( D-MD ), and Senators Rick Santorum ( R-PA ) and Harry Reid ( D-NV ), the bills were passed by unanimous consent in both chambers.

* Sen. Rick Santorum ( R-PA ), Defeated for re-election

Sam Brownback, former U. S. Senator Rick Santorum ( Pennsylvania ), former Arkansas Gov.

* Rick Santorum ( R ), incumbent U. S. Senator