So, the Creation Museum, still so new to the world, is already getting embroiled in a sex scandal. An actor who appeared as Adam in a video the museum uses to help tell their story of how the universe was created, also had a little risqué website on the side. The site shows some rather graphic photos and promotes a ‘free love’ attitude. The horror. This, of course, has gotten the officials at the Museum all hot and bothered, and not in a way their wives will appreciate. They’ve announced an investigation and have noted on their website that the actor’s actions do not match the morals or values they wish to communicate with the museum. They’ve also taken down the video.

Certainly, the museum has every right to be a little shocked at the behaviour of the actor. They have the right to openly criticize the man and the website he appears on. What doesn’t make sense is why they took down the video. Mr. Linden didn’t promote or make mention of the site in it. Indeed, he is a professional actor who played the role he was offered. The actor freely admits that while he isn’t Adam off-screen, that has nothing to do with how he performs in the video itself.

So what is the problem for the Museum? It seems they cannot fathom the idea the man they hired to play Adam was not of the highest moral caliber. What’s more, they’ve made issues of something that has nothing to do with the Museum itself or Creationism in general (from their so-called scientific perspective). What the actor did outside of his performance in the video is really not the concern of the Museum or their leadership. What they are doing is publicly questioning his morals and values, deeming them less than satisfactory for public decency. That is unfair and hypocritical. He has done nothing wrong.

A quick visit to Eric Linden’s site (aka Adam), reveals that rather than being upset by the museum’s decision, he accuses left wing pressure groups of trying to shut down the Creation Museum by ‘outing’ him. He claims “people such as Julie Carr Smyth, feel it’s necessary to attack the Creation Museum in any way possible. Why? Maybe because they are right? I was hired as a actor, not a spokesperson!”

The Museum operators have created a scandal where none existed. That such a tenuous link between a small website and the museum has been blown up into such a controversy is rather shameful. The man’s actions outside of his performance in the video have done nothing to harm the museum. The museum and its operators should be ashamed for casting public scrutiny on a man who has done nothing aside from behaving and acting how he wished, which is the right of everyone.