Expelled deals with the real possibility of ridicule for bringing Intelligent Design into the classroom.  Ben Stein says careers have been damaged.

“The movie is about about people who have tried to bring up intelligent design in colleges and universities and research entities, and have gotten kicked out, their grants taken away, humiliated, ostracized.”         

These movie goes were among the first to see "Expelled". 

- “I really didn’t understand that this was going on in our country.”

- “I was raised as an atheist and an evolutionist. And over the years, it didn’t make sense any more. And when I became a Christian I started looking at it from a different point of view.”     

Dr. Jonathan Wells, appears in Expelled.  He says he hasn’t suffered job discrimination because he's a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute, but his support of ID has hurt his career.
 
“I am pretty much expelled from the scientific community.  I can’t get anybody uh to work with at this point.”  

Robert Crowther, of Discovery Institute says the "Expelled" has lawmakers entering the debate.

“Already it’s having an impact in that three states, Florida, Missouri and Louisiana have introduced uh just in the past few weeks academic freedom acts into their state legislatures.”  

You can go to Academic Freedom Petition dot com to learn more about supporting academic freedom.     

The web site has sample legislation of what an academic freedom bill in  state government might look like.  Three states have adopted versions of academic freedom bills for their own states.  On the other side, atheist columnist Michael Shermer is interviewed in Expelled and denies persecution of intelligent design proponents in spite of the evidence presented.