The Jewmanist » Pete stark http://jewmanist.com We're all chosen people Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:10:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 We’re Comin’ Out! (Thanks to Pete Stark.) http://jewmanist.com/2007/03/15/were-comin-out-thanks-to-pete-stark/ http://jewmanist.com/2007/03/15/were-comin-out-thanks-to-pete-stark/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:08:00 +0000 Rose Schwartz http://jewmanist.wordpress.com/2007/03/15/were-comin-out-thanks-to-pete-stark/ I’ve been so busy at work this week, I haven’t had much time to even look at a blog. But I did have the opportunity to read this article and would like to share it. Pete Stark is the first U.S. Congressman to openly hold nontheist/atheist views. It’s a start!

There is only one member of Congress who is on record as not holding a god-belief.

However:

Surveys vary in the percentage of atheists, humanists, freethinkers and other nontheists in the U.S, with about 10% (30 million people) a fair middle point. “If the number of nontheists in Congress reflected the percentage of nontheists in the population,” Lori Lipman Brown, director of the Secular Coalition, observes, “there would be 53-54 nontheistic Congress members instead of one.”

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