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Here is the Cover page (PDF) of this issue with the Table of Contents. If you are not on our mailing or PDF list and want a complete copy, send contact info to Communications Director. We give 3 issues free to those who want to know more about Atheist For Human Rights before deciding whether we are worth the few bucks it takes to join. See the new, easy-to-use SUPPORTER BENEFITS & SIGN-UP FORM here! Meanwhile, this issue focuses on our newest publication, Culture Wars: The Threat to Your Family and Your Freedom. How many of you know that your entire life from pre-conception to death is controlled by laws based SOLELY on some church's ancient dogma that makes no sense today if it ever did? How many of you know WHY we are ensnared in a culture war that is screwing up our entire political system? Very likely, none of you. This is not the stuff the media like to publicize, but Culture Wars does, with solid facts and plenty of endnotes. And those laws have NO secular justification. NONE. That includes every law related to gay rights, women's rights, end-of-life decision making, and all the laws that make religion a tax exempt, unaccountable, and profitable sacred cow, no matter how much social harm they cause. Culture Wars explains that harm in detail. This book is not only informative, it's entertaining to read, pulls no punches, names names and all such good readable stuff. Get it from Barnes and Noble and from Amazon.com. All profits go to our AFHR Moral High Ground project. |
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Atheists For Human Rights is a national, ethics-driven organization upholding an atheism that is confidently held, morally active, and vigorously opposes religions that are politically and socially predatory or harm innocent people.
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-- MarieAlena Castle, March 1994 -- Martin Marty, Lutheran theologian, Minneapolis MN, 28 April 1998 -- Lavanam, Atheist Centre, India Moral High Ground ProjectThe Moral High Ground project has chosen the following funds to provide support and protection for these groups and to counter the efforts of religious zealots to impose their religious doctrines through law (other funding mechanisms may be added as resources increase): Philanthrofund scholarshipLike the other Moral High Ground funding projects, it is unique in the freethought community. Each year since 2002 AFHR has donated $500 to be awarded to a GLBT openly atheist student at Pfund's major awards ceremony. This has created visibility and respect for AFHR within the GLBT community. Grants to poor women to help pay for abortionsAt least $200 each is given annually to funds such as the Women's Medical Fund, administered by Anne Nicol Gaylor from Freedom From Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin, and through the North Dakota WIN (Women In Need) Abortion Access Fund, administered by the Red River Women's Clinic in Fargo. These funds serve poor women in areas where religion-generated abortion laws are irrationally restrictive and punitive. Support for physician aid in dyingAs opportunities arise, we support efforts by physician-aid-in-dying organizations so the terminally ill who want to die with dignity on their own terms have the legal right to do so. Protection for children harmed by faith healingAs opportunities arise, we support the efforts of CHILD (Children's Healthcare Is a Legal Duty) to protect children from harm where state laws define faith healing as healthcare and exempt parents from prosecution when they allow children to die by substituting prayer for medical care. |
Outreach ActivitiesAtheists for Human Rights is focused primarily on reaching out to the public in morally active ways to advance the atheistic worldview. Charitable OutreachWe donate to secular charities that help young people and the homeless. Highway CleanupIn 2005 we took on an Adopt-A-Highway cleanup project. The work is done three times a year in spring, summer and fall. Large highway signs identify AFHR as the cleanup crew for a 4-mile stretch of highway in Lakeville that passes many churches. Minnesota Alliance Of PeacemakersWe joined MAP and have participated in several of their events urging peaceful solutions to world conflicts. MAP is a coalition of churches and secular organizations working together in the cause of peace. Interfaith DialogueAFHR is represented by invitation at regular interfaith gatherings hosted by Rep. Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, to find common ground in our common humanity to address the causes of social conflict and stress. Speakers BureauSince 2004, about three times a year, we have been invited to give presentations on atheism to educational and social service agencies for their diversity training programs. Fireside ChatsThese monthly discussions about atheist issues are occasions for socializing as well as developing ideas for further activism. Public ForumsThis major outreach project was begun in June 2006 and continues. The purpose is to show the public how atheists support our constitutional freedoms, seek rational solutions to issues of civic concern, and promote the common good. These events are heavily advertised in local newspapers and on Air America radio. |
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Atheists For Human Rights has a geodesic dome as its headquarters. This unique architecture was developed by Buckminster ("Bucky") Fuller (1895-1983), an atheist, architect, environmentalist, and inventor. His ambition was to use science to help solve human problems and to find ways to do more with less. |
The tragic death of his young daughter inspired him to find "what a single individual can contribute to changing the world and benefiting all humanity." The epitaph on Fuller's tombstone says, "Call me trimtab," referring to a small but critical aircraft part that holds a stabilizing component in position. |
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