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Freethought Equality Fund Political Action Committee
, which helps candidates seeking election to public office who openly identify as humanist, atheist and agnostic. In 1988, he was the campaign manager for the first openly gay candidate running for the city council
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I grew up in a fundamentalist church in Pennsylvania. They believed the Bible was the word of God. It was conservative, but it wasnât political â they were just a small religious community, and great people.
Now I run the Freethought Equality Fund, which is part of the American Humanist Associationâs political arm. We endorse candidates, give them money, and try to get more candidates to run as atheists and humanists. We need reason, evidence and compassion in public policy; we canât have it dictated by bronze age notions about how society should work.