Conservative Atheists Speak Up About CPAC Shunning

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By Leah Libresco • February 26, 2014, 7:09 AM

Less than 24 hours passed between the American Atheists‘ announcement that “Atheists March Into Lions’ Den at CPAC” and the follow-up “CPAC Boots Atheist Booth.”

Once the news was out, some conservatives began lodging complaints. Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Council said, “If this is where the ACU is headed, they will have to pack up and put away the ‘C’ in CPAC,” and Brent Bozell claimed their attendance would be “more than an attack on conservative principles. It is an attack on God Himself.”

That may have been the response that Dave Silverman, president of the American Atheists was hoping for, when he told CNN that “The Christian right should be threatened by us.” But, as he explained to TAC, Silverman’s goal wasn’t to attack the conservative movement, but to “change it from within.”

Silverman is a self-described conservative, who cited Christie Todd Whitman and Bob Dole as politicians he particularly admires, and found it ironic to be bumped from a conservative conference less than a week after he’d been out shooting with his family.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/conservative-atheists-speak-up-about-cpac-shunning/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=conservative-atheists-speak-up-about-cpac-shunning

Here's the brochure American Atheists planned to distribute:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/209256398/American-Atheists-CPAC-2014-Brochure

Don't mind the source. Sometimes you have to wade into the sewer to find fhe problem.

[Bluenorthwest]

1. Brent Bozell, board member of the Catholic League, is using the 'attack on God' lingo

currently in fashion due to Francis' description of marriage equality being 'an attack on God'. It's all the rage. Folks attacking God.
I was just reading about this on the Catholic League website, where they are fuming hot about atheists, gay people and that movie Philomena which God does not want to get an Oscar, particularly not that awful Steve Coogan. Their website is really, really funny. Philomena, Judy Dench they are raging about. It's unreal, surreal and sadly just real.

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2. Meanwhile Dave Silverman is praising Bob Dole.

It's a lovely carnival.

Conservatives of every stripe are repulsive.

[cbayer]

8. God doesn't want Judy Dench to get an oscar??

Exactly what kind of god is that, lol.

[cbayer]

3. The politicians he admires are Christine Whitman and Bob Dole?

Yikes, where did this guy come from?

I think the article is right in terms of his having difficulties from both ends of the spectrum. Is this really who activist atheists want being a spokesperson for them?

Is he just another huckster?

[AtheistCrusader]

5. Whitman styles herself as a 'progressive' conservative.

A real bipartisan team player.

[cbayer]

6. Early on in her career i thought she might turn out ok, but I changed my mind about

that a long time ago.

I think he's trying to play both sides of the fence here. I wonder what his political objectives are?

[AtheistCrusader]

4. Whitman whitman whitman... hmmm

Christie Todd Whitman...


OH YEAH, she's the one that raised the allowed levels of arsenic in our food and water, and told everyone that breathing the Libby MT Zonelite asbestos from the WTC destruction was just peachy-dandy.

Well, political alignment aside, Silverman sure has some curious political heroes.

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10. She's a real prize.

Christine Todd Whitman frisking Sherron Rolax; photo taken by state police officer while on duty, presumed to be copyrighted by the State of New Jersey.

In 1996, Whitman joined a New Jersey State Police patrol in Camden, New Jersey. During the patrol, the officers stopped a 16-year-old African American male named Sherron Rolax, and frisked him. After the police found nothing on him, Whitman also frisked the youth while a state trooper photographed her. In 2000, the image of the smiling governor frisking Rolax was published in newspapers statewide, which drew criticism from civil rights leaders who saw the incident as a violation of Rolax's civil rights and an endorsement by Whitman of racial profiling – especially since Rolax was not arrested or found to be violating any law. Whitman told the press that she regretted the incident and pointed to her 1999 efforts against the New Jersey State Police force's racial profiling practices. In 2001, Rolax learned about the photograph and sued Whitman in federal court, claiming that the search was illegal and an invasion of privacy. The appeals court agreed that the acts did indeed suggest "an intentional violation" of Rolax's rights, and that he "was detained and used for political purposes by his governor," but upheld the trial court's decision that it was too late to sue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Todd_Whitman

[AtheistCrusader]

11. Shame it was too late for the victim to sue.

[LostOne4Ever]

9. This explains why hes on Faux News so much

Birds of a feather...