Subject: Darwin Day and Separation of Church and State

From: "Sara Ryan" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 10:37:42 -0400

Hi,
 
My name is Sara Ryan and I am the Youth and Campus Organizer at Americans United for Separation of Church and State (www.au.org).  
 
Through our legislative and field departments, we plan to do a large amount of organizing against the various intelligent design/creationism efforts across the United States.  
 
I attended the Secular Student Alliance conference last month and listened to a presentation about Darwin Day.  It sounds like a really great way to get students involved in understanding the importance of promoting science (and not religion) in the classroom!
 
Would your organizing team be interested in working with us to encourage students to organize public policy campaigns against intelligent design in their communities in accordance with their Darwin Day celebrations?  We could encourage students to write letters or make phone calls to their state legislators, write letters to the editor, etc. to advocate against the passage of pro-intelligent design legislation in states. 
 
If this seems like something you might be interested in, please let me know and we can organize a phone conference to discuss the possibilities.  
 
Thanks for all the great work you do!  
 
Sara
 
Sara Ryan
Youth and Campus Organizer
Americans United for Separation of Church and State
518 C St NE
Washington DC 20002
www.au.org 
202 466 3234 * 225