What Took So Long?

Atheists finally have a lobbyist of their own (second story down). It’s about god damn time.

She is Lori Lipman Brown, 47, a former Nevada state senator and lawyer with a background in constitutional law, who is going to work for the Secular Coalition for America, an umbrella group. She's interested in church-state separation issues and says she intends to "help us move toward the day when humanists and atheists are regarded with the same respect as the rest of society."

She began work yesterday at the D.C. headquarters of the American Humanist Association and also will be representing the concerns of the Atheist Alliance International, the Institute for Humanist Studies, the Secular Student Alliance and the Secular Web.

"For humanists, having a full-time lobbyist is a historic accomplishment," said Roy Speckhardt, AHA executive director. "It's a culmination of our efforts to establish a seat at the table for our views.

I just wish this happened earlier in life, before I found the true religion.