You can believe what you want, but you can't tell me what to believe.

http://deadstate.org/mike-pence-believes-the-earth-is-6000-years-old-and-he-wants-to-teach-that-to-your-kids/

this is an article about Mike Pence. I think it is important to do our due diligence and understand what the people who are taking power believe in as those beliefs will influence their policies. I started with this article and then did more research and have found that he is, in fact, a true believer in 'intelligent design' which is a semantic term created during the Bush administration to replace 'creationism'. It made it sound more scientific and therefore they could try and make us teach it in public schools. It never got off the ground but Pence is a true believer. He is a VERY conservative Christian and from many interviews and speeches I have heard and read, he takes the bible literally. He also does not believe in evolution. If he wants people to learn of these theories in their church, so be it, but keep it out of public schools. We teach Science in school, not religion.

"A scientific theory is a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment. Such fact-supported theories are not "guesses" but reliable accounts of the real world."

I have no problem with someone believing what they want as that is one of the basic rights guaranteed in our Constitution. 

 "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;..."

There is a clear precedent for the separation of church and state and we need to keep a vigilant eye on any legislation that brings the church, specifically Mike Pence's ultra-conservative, orthodox Christian kind, into public schools.