American Humanist Association

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Posted 6, November, 2013

“We cannot treat everybody, literally everybody equally without eliminating prayer altogether.”

The Supreme Court heard arguments today in Town of Greece v. Galloway, a case challenging the constitutionality of prayer before legislative sessions.

Arguing that the prayers in the Town of Greece’s city council meetings violated the First Amendment, Douglas Laycock offered this quote that sure Sounds Like Humanism to us!

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Posted 9, April, 2013

Ladies and gentlemen, as the council gathers here to make laws affecting the people of Wilmington, I ask you to lift your heads, to open your eyes, and open your hearts. Our most serious duty is to look to the community we share, the examples we make, and the legacies we leave. That should be our greatest, most courageous, and noble intention. Let this be our most constant success. Thank you. By That’s how a humanist makes an invocation at a city council meeting. No god necessary.

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Posted 19, March, 2013

As you come through those doors then you become public officials, responsible for 135,000 odd people in Rowan County, and you speak as county commissioners, not private citizens. When you offer a prayer as public officials, you offer it to all 135,000 people, not just to the ones that are of your particular tradition in the protestant tradition. To do otherwise is to show disrespect or lack of respect for others in the county. By This is how resident John Burke responded to the Rowan County Commission in North Carolina after they opened a public meeting by praying in the name of Jesus Christ. The ACLU is suing.