CNN reported Pete Stark as an atheist.
Posted on: March 16, 2007 - 7:40am
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CNN reported Pete Stark as an atheist.
I missed the story but caught the teaser this morning.
Why did it take 4 days for CNN to report Dem House member Pete Stark as the first open atheist?
Anywho, its about time.
GO PETE!
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I think the Stark thing will be a sleeper. Not much attention right away, but it will build over time as we mention it constantly. I think many Christian leaders are just trying to formulate a response.
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They've begun.
http://www.rationalresponders.com/forum/sapient/news_activism/5486Honestly, I'm dissapointed with the press release job the SCA did. The day the news hit, hardley anybody new about it. Pete Stark didn't do a media interview, nothing. If I had been the PR manager for the SCA, I would have done things differently. But the gravity of the event will has caused waves that will not go unnoticed.
The Enlightenment wounded the beast, but the killing blow has yet to land...
It is probably just as well he didn't do a media interview - which surely his critics would have seized upon as a ploy for attention. Let the irrational naysayers create the stir - much as they did in the backlash to taking "under god" out of the Pledge
There are no theists on operating tables.