Matthew is a troublemaker. See, it says so right here in the newspaper.
http://blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2008/04/the_student_provocateur.html
He’ll be attending the New School in Manhattan. Because he is also a board member of the Secular Students’ Alliance and the president of CFI’s campus outreach program, he’ll be looking for ways to help organize and coordinate the coming rise of secularism. He has had feelers for radio programs, and is looking for ways to get our message out.
To give just one example, the radio talk show host Lars Larson (http://www.larslarson.com/) interviewed him last week. We were prepared for trouble, but Larson let Matthew talk. However, during the interview, Larson “reminded” Matthew that the Constitution doesn’t say anything about separation of church and state. Matt didn’t argue with him. He has his own way of winning people over. After Matt was off, Larson took calls. The first call was a praise session between Larson and his caller, both of them saying how impressed they were with Matt. When one like-minded caller was anguishing with Larson over why teachers can’t lead prayers in public schools, Larson started explaining to his own caller on his own talk show that public school teachers can’t cross that line between uh . . . I got the feeling that Larson knows better, at least on some issues, but has to please his audience. I don’t know that Matt had won him over, but it sure sounded like it.
Anyone with any ideas or forums to get Matt out there - let me know. I’m not too shy to say I think we have a winner, he has earned name recognition at a very young age, and I’m going to do all I can to help him. Help us out.
