Buoyed by poll numbers showing religious “nones” growing as a percentage of the U.S. population, the Secular Coalition for America is even trying to highlight candidates who are “nontheists” and says Democrats and Republicans will have to work to win their votes.
“I personally think that this is going to be the last presidential election where we are going to not hear more about the nontheist community,” said Larry Decker, executive director of the group.
Mr. Decker’s group has been highlighting a “secular candidate of the week” — an effort he likened to the American Humanist Association’s formation of the Freethought Equality Fund PAC to start spotlighting and endorsing openly nontheistic candidates.
Last week’s candidate was Misty Plowright, a transgender woman running as a Democrat for Congress in Colorado. The group quotes her as saying that “freedom and equality for all belief, including secular ones, are of the utmost importance to me.”
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