Welcome back, everyone, and a hearty greetings to those either new to Harvard, new to my blog, or both. I hope this site will provide us with an excellent opportunity to learn from each other about Humanism over the coming year.
For my first post of the new school year, I wanted to provide something a little bit “extra,” and so I’m very pleased to present an exclusive (and perhaps temporary?) video link.
Did you know that Humanists, agnostics, atheists, and the non-religious have a professional Congressional lobbying office, called the Secular Coalition?
This, along with the other connected teams of Humanist lawyers being assembled around the US today, could end up being significant for some of you readers out there. For example, just last week I met with a Harvard student who is interested in becoming a Humanist activist and getting involved in our growing Graduate Humanist Community. She was enthusiastic, but worried because she knows she is going to spend at least a few years after school working in a very large, powerful corporation, where there might be some pressure to conform to traditional religious standards– ie, to be “in the closet” as a Humanist. Well, I was happy to tell her, that would be discrimination on the basis of religion, (or lack thereof) and with our new legal experts, there is no way any company would ever want to touch the issue.
Anyway, enough from me. Click the screen below to watch Lori Lipman Brown, the new Secular/Humanist/Atheist Lobbyist on Capitol Hill, in two Fox News interviews from last year.
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