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An Atheist Lobby in the US

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An Atheist Lobby in the US

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Dawkins argues that atheists should consider organising a lobby group in the US? What might such a lobby look like?He argues that atheists outnumber Jews who are a powerful lobby in the US. Whether the numbers or right or not (I really have no idea) it's important to note that there is no "Jewish" lobby in the U.S. There is a pro-Israeli lobby. A different thing entirely. While members of this lobby are mostly Jewish, they don't tend to represent anti-Zionist Jews. Their aims are entirely political and secular as far as I can tell.Atheists don't really have such political aims. Of course, the vast majority of atheists oppose the attempts of the Christian Right to link church and state, but to be fair, they'd have support from a fair number of theists in their opposition to the likes of Billy Graham. So what exactly would be the aims of an atheist lobby? Full of Porn*http://plainofpillars.blogspot.com
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Actually, such an organization already exists. It's fairly new, so I'm not surprised Dawkins doesn't know about it.Although it's not restricted to atheists, the Secular Coalition for America is the first full-time lobbying organization set up to represent the interests of nontheists before the federal government of the United States. The objectives of the organization, as stated in their literature, are to:
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