In case y'all miss this in LBN...

[onager]

Atheists now have an official lobbyist in Washington!

Non-believers raising voice in capital By Jill Lawrence, USA TODAY
Mon Sep 19, 8:32 AM ET

Americans who don't believe in God have decided it's time they had a lobbyist in the nation's capital. Their new advocate describes herself as a "soft, fuzzy atheist."

Lori Lipman Brown starts Monday as executive director of the Secular Coalition for America. Her two goals: keep religion out of government and win respect for a stigmatized minority...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/nonbelieversraisingvoiceincapital

[Az]

1. Read that and there was a bit of rejoicing in our houlehold

Yay! :party:

[immoderate]

2. A good move.

That's a tough territory.

BTW, Hi Az:hi:. Good to see you back,

--IMM

[PassingFair]

3. I love the name: Secular Coalition for America...

MUCH better than Godless Americans, or some such.
I could get away with wearing SCA on a t-shirt or pin.

[progressoid]

4. Wow - that's pretty cool

Brown likens atheists today to gays in the 1970s: people just coming out of the closet to fight for acceptance. "There's been so much rhetoric in the past decade about how important religion is to being a good person," she says, that "it's been scary" for people to say they don't believe in God. She vows to "use the A-word and not cringe."

I wonder if she was open about her atheism when she was a state senator?

Edited to add their website: http://www.secular.org/index.html

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

5. LBN link please? (nt)

[onager]

6. LBN link...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1791982

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

8. Good thing about this thread is

There's absolutely no way in hell anyone can say this isn't a good thing without completely outing themselves as the flat-out bigots they are.

And now for something completely different - the already known ruse of putting woo-woo words in dead atheists' mouths:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1791982#1792994

[Beetwasher]

7. Sweet! It's About Time!

:thumbsup:

[defiant1]

9. It's a tough task....

I wish her the best of luck is representing the rights of us heathens.

:patriot:

[Taxloss]

10. I find it very sad that this is necessary.

Here in the UK (15-17% atheist; many more "no religion") I would be shocked if this was seen as necessary.

(We also have lower divorce, abortion, murder and adultery rates. Go figure.)