An Openly Atheist Candidate is Running for Congress in Arizona

[rug]

April 27, 2014
By Hemant Mehta

In 2012, Republican Matt Salmon was comfortably elected to the House of Representatives from the 5th Congressional District in Arizona, representing the western suburbs of Phoenix. (He had previously served as the Representative from the 1st district from 1995-2001.)

Salmon opposes federal funding of abortions, gay marriage, and gay adoption (despite his own son being gay). He also voted against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act.

In short, he needs to go.

And James Woods wants to be the person replacing him.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/04/27/an-openly-atheist-candidate-is-running-for-congress-in-arizona/

http://jameswoodsforcongress.com/

[cbayer]

1. I fully support him and hope he wins.

But he needs to leave the believer bashing out of it. He can run as an atheist without doing that, and hopefully he will.

But his 2011 billboard is going to bite him, imo.

[LostOne4Ever]

2. He's going to get crushed

Not because he's an atheist (though that certainly won't help him either), but because that district is blood red.

He could be Jesus, Joseph Smith or Bringham Young and he still would not get elected if he didn't have an R after his name.