2005 Media Coverage
See the Secular Coalition's radio and podcast coverage from 2005-2009, or our list of book recommendations. Navigate press coverage by year using the links at the bottom of the page.
Mother Jones
Atheists finally have their own lobbying group.
Arizona Daily Sun
Weary of feeling silenced by a culture dominated by organized faith, nonbelievers in southern Arizona -- and across the country -- are coming out.
Secular Web
Lori Lipman Brown Brown goes to Washington as the first Director/Lobbyist of the Secular Coalition for America, of which Internet Infidels is a founding member.
CBS News
It's quite possibly the last special interest group to establish a voice in Washington. The Secular Coalition for America has hired Lori Lipman Brown as its congressional lobbyist and national voice.
Kansas State Collegian
Godless heathens of America, rejoice! Wait, can heathens rejoice? Regardless, non-Christians just won two important national victories in the past few weeks. Just days after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declared that requiring public school children to recite the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance violated the First Amendment, Capitol Hill said hello to Lori Lipman Brown -- our first atheist lobbyist.
Las Vegas Sun
The career of the first lobbyist to represent atheists on Capitol Hill -- Las Vegan Lori Lipman Brown -- was forged in the political fires of Nevada.
Daily Kos
Lori Lipman Brown, the Director and Lobbyist of the Secular Coalition for America (SCA) is going to be on Bill O'Reilly's TV show on Wednesday, September 28th. It should be an interesting showdown. [Webmaster's note: The reporter assumed, because of Brown's work for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equality, and because Brown refers to her husband as her "partner," that Brown is a lesbian. Brown is hopeful that the error will point out that allies are welcome in every civil rights struggle, and that our members welcome the assistance of Theists in our fight to be included in our secular government and in society in general.]
Washington Times
Atheists finally have a lobbyist of their own.
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Former Nevada state senator Lori Lipman Brown began work Monday as a lobbyist for the Secular Coalition for America, a group of humanists and atheists formed after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to keep religion out of government.
USA Today
Americans who don't believe in God have decided it's time they had a lobbyist in the nation's capital. Their new advocate describes herself as a "soft, fuzzy atheist." [Letter to editor: Non-believers' voice]
Forward Newspaper Online
The nonbelievers are fighting back. The Secular Coalition for America -- which sees itself as the voice of America's agnostics, humanists and nontheists -- has just hired its first full-time Washington lobbyist: former Nevada state senator Lori Lipman Brown, a longtime civil rights activist.
Las Vegas City Life
Lori Lipman Brown just accepted one of the toughest jobs on the planet: Taking atheism to Washington D.C.
Humanist Network News
A coalition of non-religious organizations has hired the first lobbyist in Washington D.C. to represent the rights of humanists, atheists and other freethinkers.
U.S. News and World Report
In the midst of a brouhaha in Buffalo last month over a gay men's choral performance at a church, Jeff Ingersoll opened up the Buffalo News. A statement from a religious protester caught his eye: "You've got to stop the abortionists, the homosexuals, the pornographers, the secular humanists," the protester said.
Las Vegas Review-Journal
President George W. Bush's re-election in November was a galvanizing event for many groups in American politics. Republicans, of course. Conservatives, certainly. Americans who consider religious faith a valid consideration in public policy, perhaps. But Bush's re-election also was a galvanizing event for another group: People who don't necessarily believe in a Supreme Being and who would prefer that, if there is one, he or she stay out of American politics.
San Diego Union-Tribune
Herb Silverman, president of the Secular Coalition for America, said he considers Newdow to be an "outstanding representative" of the nation's secularists.
Beliefnet
Bracing for what's to come from a Republican-controlled White House and Congress, people who don't believe in God are joining forces as never before to make sure their rights don't get trampled in what they perceive as a stampede of religious zeal.
