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Tuesday, December 06, 2005
Support a Daily Kos Intelligent (Design) Fundraiser
(UPDATED!) Thugs beat up evolution supporter - We’re fighting back.
by HollywoodOz
Mon Dec 05, 2005 at 09:12:05 PM PDT
As you’ve probably seen on the top of the recommended diary list, today a pair of ‘Christians’ stalked and attacked Professor Paul Mirecki, the Chair of Kansas University’s Department of Religious Studies. He currently sits in hospital recovering from his savage beating. [UPDATE: He’s since been released from hospital and is doing fine]
Why did they attack him? Because he’s running a class about how intelligent design is scientific quackery.
I’m sure the media will downplay the attack as just being a pair of lone lunatics, but let’s not fall for that - this is a terrorist act as defined by the Patriot Act, not to mention a hate crime. Quite frankly, I’m not going to stand for it. So I’m fighting back, and you can too. Here’s how:
HollywoodOz’s diary :: ::
Americans United for the Separation of Church and State have been part of the pushback against Intelligent Design, and though I’m sure other groups are just as deserving, I’m choosing them to be the recipients of a donation drive in Paul Mirecki’s name.
The goal? Let’s raise $5,000 tonight in donations coming from the Daily Kos. (full story)
I read somewhere that the way this story was presented there were numerous errors.
From Michelle Malkin’s blog:
“Meanwhile, a Daily Kos diarist claims the attack is a “terrorist act as defined by the Patriot Act” but backs down from his claim that the alleged beating left Mirecki “within [an] inch of his life.”
http://michellemalkin.com/2005/12/07/what-happened-to-paul-mirecki/