Bill Maher: Atheism will be ‘the new gay marriage’

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Bill Maher: Atheism will be ‘the new gay marriage’

While his atheism would preclude him from public office, Real Time host Bill Maher said in an interview Monday night, he suggested that could change for other future political prospects in the future.

“[Atheists are] out there, they’re thinking it, they’re just afraid to say it,” Maher told interviewer Sharon Waxman at a conference hosted by TheWrap. “But that’s changing. It’ll be the new gay marriage.”

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Maher’s remarks come less than a week after the formation of the first atheist political action committee, the Freethought Equality Fund, whose organizers were quoted by NPR as saying they knew “of more than two dozen closeted atheists serving in Congress today.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/24/bill-maher-atheism-will-be-the-new-gay-marriage/

[LostOne4Ever]

1. I think trangender rights will be the next "Gay Marriage"

We will probably come after that though.

[ZombieHorde]

2. Transgender rights are very important.

I'm an atheist, and I would be delighted to see transgender folks gain acceptance throughout the land. In my opinion, gains in transgender acceptance are currently more important than gains in atheist acceptance.

[LostOne4Ever]

3. I completely agree

There is so much hate for TG people that I can't see how it won't be the next battle field in the culture war. Our issues are important, but I feel they face much greater persecution than we do and should be prioritized above us.

[cleanhippie]

4. All of the docronatiom against transgenders come from religious believers.

All of it is rooted in some form of religious interpretation of scripture and wilfull ignorance.

[A HERETIC I AM]

9. Not all of it.

Some people are just terrified of things they don't understand.

Some get violent about them as a result.

[Mr.Bill]

5. Hell, I think half the Clergy are Atheists.

Never mind politicians.

[Stuckinthebush]

6. I know they are

I know many and when you get them alone with a beer in hand they will tell you that its all crap.

[Mr.Bill]

7. As George Carlin used to say,

the greatest salesmen in the world are in awe of the Clergy.

Think about it. They are selling the concept of an invisible man in the sky. And rather successfully, too.

[sakabatou]

8. There is "The Clergy Project"

http://www.clergyproject.org/

[Mr.Bill]

10. Very interesting.

Thanks for the link.

[sakabatou]

11. No prob