It's no wonder that Oklahoma's advocates of intelligent design (ID), clinging to a discredited notion that lacks scientific merit and desperate to shove ID down the throats of teacher sand students, are trying every trick in the book.  In this case, the book is The Aeneid, and the trick is a Trojan Horse.

Our friends at Free Exchange write that the mistitled “Academic Freedom Act” serves as a Trojan Horse.  Rather than a gift to teachers seeking academic freedom, the bill promote ID and would allow students to cite ID as an excuse to opt out of legitimate science coursework.  Marketing the bill under the guise of "academic freedom" is particularly offensive since the bill seeks to control and stifle science instruction.

While the Trojan Horse ploy worked for the ancient Greeks, it failed in modern-day Oklahoma:  The bill died in the state Senate.