Ethics

FFRF Strikes a Blow for....Not Much

By Ed Brayton

This is why I'm not a big fan of the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

Using a billboard in Columbus, near East Main Street and Fountain Lane, the Freedom From Religion Foundation is sending this message: "Praise Darwin: Evolve Beyond Belief."

The billboard, erected Tuesday, Feb. 10, faces east and is on the south side of East Main Street, just west of Fountain Lane.

The tactic appears to be a response from the church-and-state watchdog group to the city of Whitehall, both for its refusal to remove a Nativity from the front of City Hall in December and for nixing an ordinance Feb. 3 that would have recognized Darwin's 200th birthday and his theory of evolution.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on February 15, 2009 (boomark / email).