Freethought Day
GWH MEETING - October 2008 - Freethought Day Celebration
TIME: October 14th @ 7:00 PM
TOPIC: Freethought Day celebration.
Join us to hear our guest speaker, Marc Adams, a former student of Jerry Falwell's Liberty Univeristy, who bills himself as running the only nonprofit with the sole mission of providing outreach to GLBT students terrorized at religious educational institutions.
Marc Adams is the author of eight books including his award-winning autobiography, The Preacher's Son, five collections of poetry, and The Do's & Don'ts of Dealing with the Religious Right.
Reared in a cultish, fundamentalist Baptist home, aware that he was gay by the age of seven and weaving his way through religious schools (including Jerry Falwell's Liberty University) and reparative therapy techniques, Adams started his journey to self-acceptance at age 23.
Marc Adams is also the founder and executive director of HeartStrong, Inc. It is the only educational nonprofit in the world with the sole mission to provide outreach and support to GLBT students terrorized at religious educational institutions. The HeartStrong Outreach Team has self-driven more than 350,000 miles in the past ten years.
October meeting follow up
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About 40 individuals showed up for our Freethought Day celebration and screening of part 1 of "A Brief History of Disbelief." Our own Manny Zax went to the mayor's office to get the Freethought Day proclamation signed. "Freethought Day is a tribute to free thought, liberty of conscience, naturalistic ethics, secular government, and civic values." (from http://freethoughtday.org/) from Wikipedia The seminal event connected to Freethought Day is an edict issued by Massachusetts Governor William Phips, about which he wrote to the Privy Council of the British monarchs, William and Mary, on this day in 1692. In this correspondence he outlined the quagmire that the trials had denegerated into by a reliance on "evidence" of a non-objective nature and especially "spectral evidence" in which the accusers claimed to see devils and other phantasms consorting with the accused." |
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Freethought Day Proclamation in Worcester
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