Ethics

Report on My Michigan Atheists Speech

By Ed Brayton

The weekend before last, I spoke at the annual convention of Michigan Atheists. The Lansing City Pulse had a reporter there and he has published an article about the convention. I'm a little disappointed in the article. He writes of my speech:

To kick off the convention, Ed Brayton, president of Michigan Citizens for Science, treated the unfaithful to a prickly defense of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Brayton mocked the panicky posture of self-appointed defenders of faith -- the folks who see no harm in putting a manger in front of a courthouse.

"The war on Christmas seems to start earlier every year," Brayton quipped.

He told the group that longstanding legislative efforts to put creationism into the state's science curriculum were quiet for now, owing to a 2006 change in committee chairmanships and an enlightened school board.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 21, 2008 (boomark / email).