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Folksonomies: activism atheism gay rights Memes
06 NOV 2013
What Humanism Can Learn from the LGBT Community
So, what can the godless movement learn from the LGBT movement? Bullet point number one: coming out. Coming out is the single most powerful political act that LGBT people can take—and it’s the single most powerful political act that godless people can take. Consistently, polls show that the one factor most likely to predict whether people support gay rights is whether they know a gay person personally. (Or, to be more accurate—whether they know that they know a gay person.) And I think ...The history of gay rights activism provides many lessons for atheists in seeking equality.