Just consider the many different ways natural selection has helped various species protect themselves against danger. Cats have claws.
Porcupines have bristles.
And some politicians have antennae that can sense the approach of a difficult issue of principle from miles away, leaving them plenty of time to scurry into the nearest patch of tall grass. I don't think it's possible to be outraged enough by this ludicrous decree. Yet the candidates appear to believe that even the mildest expression of disgust about this would be too risky. Sure, we expected wing nuts like Gary Bauer and Pat Buchanan to heap sympathy on the Kansas decision. Kansas's own moderate Republican governor is unabashedly livid at the board's action.