A PAC for atheist candidates WAPO Herb Silverman

[dimbear]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-faith/wp/2013/09/30/a-pac-for-atheist-candidates/

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The good news for atheists, agnostics, and humanists is the creation of the Freethought Equality Fund, a new Political Action Committee (PAC) dedicated to expanding voters’ choices by backing the candidacy of open nontheists to public office. It is the first such PAC with a paid staff. (Full Disclosure: I’m an unpaid advisory board member of the Freethought Equality Fund.)

Launched by the American Humanist Association’s Center for Humanist Activism, the Freethought Equality Fund will support candidates who share our goals of protecting the separation of church and state and defending the civil liberties of secular Americans. And it will probably also support some theists and “closeted” atheists who advocate for our causes.
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Got a few bucks left after you settled up with DU?

[cbayer]

1. It's going to be interesting to watch the evolution of this.

While they are primarily focused on supporting candidates who identify as non-believers, they appear to have some political criteria as well.

The risk is that they end up backing some libertarian or Ayn Rand types based solely on their religious beliefs or lack of beliefs, but I don't think that will happen.