New Church/State Controversy in Michigan
I've got an article at the Michigan Messenger about a new potential church/state lawsuit in Michigan....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 11:40 AM • 13 Comments •
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Ed Brayton is a journalist, commentator and speaker. He is the co-founder and president of Michigan Citizens for Science and co-founder of The Panda's Thumb. He has written for such publications as The Bard, Skeptic and Reports of the National Center for Science Education, spoken in front of many organizations and conferences, and appeared on nationally syndicated radio shows and on C-SPAN. Ed is also a Fellow with the Center for Independent Media and the host of Declaring Independence, a one hour weekly political talk show on WPRR in Grand Rapids, Michigan.(static)
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April 30, 2008
I've got an article at the Michigan Messenger about a new potential church/state lawsuit in Michigan....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 11:40 AM • 13 Comments •
Here's one of the more outrageous stories you'll hear today. A high school principal in Memphis heard that two students were a gay couple and she posted their names where everyone could see it: In September of 2007, the principal...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 56 Comments •
This is an amusing bit of video from the Fox News morning show, where they don't seem to know the difference between Stephen Douglas and Frederick Douglass. Video below the fold....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 17 Comments •
While the folks in San Francisco are praying for lower gas prices, the mayor of Birmingham, Alabama just held a "sackcloth and ashes" prayer meeting to try and solve crime and other problems facing the city. More than 1,000 people...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 19 Comments •
John Derbyshire, the National Review writer who can be so absurd on other subjects but tends to be dead on when it comes to evolution and creationism, has a post at NRO about Expelled. He argues that the many deceptions...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 10 Comments •
Here's a fascinating case. A high school in Washington refused to allow a GSA club to get official school recognition because the charter of the group, which had to be submitted to the school during the application process, required that...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 16 Comments •
April 29, 2008
The Discovery Institute has announced that Michigan state Rep. John Moolenaar (they misspelled his name) has submitted an "academic freedom" bill similar to the ones being debated in Florida, Oklahoma and other states. Interestingly enough, the bill isn't even on...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:13 PM • 8 Comments •
The good chaps at Reasonable Doubts have posted an interview they did with me after my speech about the religious right's demonization of the ACLU last month. It was a fun interview. We just kept talking so long that we...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 12 Comments •
Okay, I'm laughing. Alan Keyes can't even win the vote to become the presidential nominee from the Constitution Party. They voted Chuck Baldwin to be the nominee instead. In fact, Keyes couldn't even top his previous best of 29% in...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 19 Comments •
The San Francisco newspaper reports: Rocky Twyman has a radical solution for surging gasoline prices: prayer. Twyman - a community organizer, church choir director and public relations consultant from the Washington, D.C., suburbs - staged a pray-in at a San...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 37 Comments •
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