I reported Thursday the invitations of Westboro Baptist Church and Ratio Christi to upcoming atheist Reason Rally in Washington, D.C. by the National Atheist Party.  I need to correct that report after hearing back from Ratio Christi’s Director of Administration, Blake Anderson, who informs us that Lee Moore’s invitation was only

…a very short friendly invitation to dialog noting that he had read a blog by me on the WBC invitation issue. He offered to address any concerns we might have about the NAP. There was no invitation to the event.

We responded that we are open to dialog and remain interested in an explanation as to how the NAP and <a href="http://richarddawkins.net/articles/645281-westboro-baptist-church-to-attend-reason-rally-with-special-message-for-atheists&quot; rel="nofollow" title="http://richarddawkins.net/articles/645281-westboro-baptist-church-to-attend-reason-rally-with-special-message-for-atheists
blocked::http://richarddawkins.net/articles/645281-westboro-baptist-church-to-attend-reason-rally-with-special-message-for-atheists”&gt;The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Religion believes that inviting WBC enhances the credibility of the event.

Lee Moore returned our email last night and he simply referred to his article here as the official statement why he authorized the WBC invite. He then asked if we wanted to know anything further. Very short response.

“Just today I sent an email to one of the anti Reason Rally spin groups Ratio Christi inviting them to an open dialogue with us. WBC is not the only group we wanted to open lines of communication with. They were just the most well known one.”