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Bishops hold back progress, says AHA
Bishops Hold Back Progress, Say Humanists
For Immediate Release - Contact: Fred Edwords at (202) 238-9088
(Washington, D.C., June 13, 2008) The American
Humanist Association denounced today's document issued by the United States
Roman Catholic bishops in which the bishops "warned" against the "moral
dangers" of embryonic stem cell research. The document states that "no
commitment to a hoped-for 'greater good' can erase or diminish the wrong of
directly taking innocent human lives here and now."
In response, the American Humanist Association warned against the harm to
Humanists come out against bias
Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.) has come out of the closet, but not in the way we typically use the term. Stark, who, last fall, accepted the Harvard Humanist Chaplaincy’s “Humanist of the Year” award, is the first congressman in history to openly acknowledge his atheism.
The lawmaker’s public disclosure of nonbelief comes at a time when books by so-called “New Atheist” authors — Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Tufts professor Daniel Dennett and Christopher Hitchens — are topping bestseller lists.
