Next Stop Carolingian France...

The Council of Europe is ready to rein in the dangerous "religious fundamentalists" who "could become a threat to human rights" an who "are out to replace democracy by theocracy."
No not the Islamists you silly, I mean the Creationists.
After all...

6. There is a real risk of a serious confusion being introduced into our children’s minds between what has to do with convictions, beliefs and ideals and what has to do with science, and of the advent of an “all things are equal” attitude, which may seem appealing and tolerant but is actually disastrous.

Or are they.

[25/06/2007] The Parliamentary Assembly culture and education committee rapporteur Guy Lengagne (France, SOC) on 25 June said he was ''flabbergasted'', ''appalled'' and ''shocked'' by the Assembly decision to refer to committee his report on the dangers of creationism in education.

''I can only see this as a ploy on the part of people who will use any means they can to combat the theory of evolution and impose creationist ideas. What we have here is the makings of a return to the Middle Ages, and too many members of this human-rights-based assembly fail to see it''.

What hidden hand lurks here?
Dick Cheney's perhaps....?