Atheists are getting organized politically, to the point of forming a Political Action Committee that will endorse candidates, give them money, and organize grass-root support for their campaigns. Already the PAC, known as the Freethought Equality Fund, has endorsed four Congressional candidates.
From Atheist PAC makes endorsements for Congress, USA Today:
A political action committee that bills itself as a “non-theist” PAC announced its first slate of endorsements Tuesday, backing four House candidates and two state lawmakers.
The Freethought Equality Fund said it supports politicians committed to promoting a secular government and protecting the rights of non-believers.
In federal races, Reps. Jared Polis, D-Colo.; Rush Holt, D-N.J.; and Bobby Scott, D-Va., secured the group’s backing, along with Lee Rogers, a California Democrat challenging GOP Rep. Buck McKeon in next year’s congressional elections. The group singled out Polis and Holt for co-sponsoring a House resolution that sought to establish Darwin Day in celebration of evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin’s birthday. . . .