I couldn't agree with you more, billorites, let's keep ID out of the science classroom, it doesn't belong there.
I think it is a dangerous 'cause' for Conservatives (I'm an ultra-Republican and strong supporter of our President, but I was dismayed by his recent remarks on ID, which--by seeming to equate modern scientific research with theological speculation--seems to me to smack of the kind of liberal relativism that has caused many of our social ills).
Science per se isn't our enemy, though science can of course be misued--but the methodology of science does have very strong mechanisms for correcting its own errors, and where there are errors or omissions in the current model of evolutionary theory, they can (and are) addressed by valid scientific research. But ID smacks of a hidden agenda, it's 'junk science' that is too easy to refute.
I don't accept that Evolution is taught as some kind of 'faith'--science just doesn't work like that. By all means, follow and practice your faith--but I hope your faith is not (as mine is not) so fragile that it is threatened by the other beautiful truths available to us through science.
See point 2 in my msg #164, written before I read yours. Great minds.... :)