One would think that someone working as Assistant Director of Communications at Americans United for Separation of Church and State would do a modicum of research before publishing an article! Especially with such an impressive resume as this:
Before joining Americans United, Simon was a reporter for Tax Notes, where he covered tax issues for nonprofits and wrote numerous stories on church politicking. Earlier in his career, Simon was a sports writer and he covered a range of sports from professional baseball to professional squash. Simon has a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University. He is from Richmond, Virginia.
Simon is the author of a blog hit piece published on the AU website: Museum Misadventure: Ky. Elementary School Takes Students To Ken Ham’s Creationist Exhibition. He’s totally outraged over an event, that occurred in 2012, he only found out about while trolling the Nasty Atheist’s blog. One wonders why the Nasty Atheist only found out last week about this four year old school field trip to the Creation Museum. After all, he writes more about Ken Ham and the Creation Museum than about atheism! Over 247 blog posts about Ken Ham alone. Can anyone spell “stalker”?
But, getting back to his partner in crime, Simon Brown… Like many AU employees and supporters, fact checking is too much work. Don’t bother coming to the Creation Museum, just make up stuff. Obviously Simon Brown considers Kentucky “fly-over country” and flunked geography. He says:
“Perfect” belongs in quotes, here, because Lee County Elementary in Petersburg, Ky., has a rather flexible definition of perfection: students could miss one day of school and still qualify for flawless attendance.
Lee County Elementary is in Lee County, Kentucky. It’s actually called Southside Elementary–there are two elementary schools in Lee County. And, the Creation Museum is in Petersburg in Boone County, Kentucky. Southside Elementary is located 150 miles away. Hey, Brown, I guess “perfection” can be rather flexible by atheist & AU standards when you’re lying for Darwin.
One thing we can be absolutely certainly of: Simon Brown, Americans United, and the Nasty Atheist are very concerned with the education of Lee County school children!
CP
