Atheist Group to Assume Role as Political Power Broker
March 12, 2004 | 24 Comments
Washington, D.C., March 12, 2004
Special to The Raving Atheist
Seeking to capitalize on the rapidly-growing popularity of atheism in America, a group of nonbelievers has formed an organization to endorse candidates and lobby lawmakers.
Created by American Atheists president Ellen Johnson, the National Atheist Media/Business Lobbying Association, or NAMBLA, has vowed to place the considerable pull of its good name behind any politician who subscribes to the godless agenda. “What candidate wouldn’t love to run with the NAMBLA banner waving behind him?” asked Johnson.
Johnson acknowledged, however, the so-called “front-runner’s curse” that NAMBLA’s backing might trigger, noting the recent voters’ backlash against former candidate Howard after he landed Al Gore’s endorsement. Johnson proposed a novel strategy to deal with the problem: “If a candidate says, ‘Don’t endorse me,’ we will have to say we have the right to endorse somebody, but perhaps we can talk about what we can get in terms of promises from that candidate to help us out in return for not endorsing him,” Johnson said.
Johnson also suggested that a candidate who felt hindered by her group’s endorsement could improve his campaign’s prospects by telling voters “it’s the other NAMBLA,” or by wearing on his head a pair of underpants with a slick brown streak down the middle.
The creation of NAMBLA is American Atheist’s second major political initiative within a year, the first being its adoption of a public-friendly new mascot in May 2003.
March 12th, 2004 @ 5:08 pm
So why have they chosen the likeness of President Bush’s chief advisor Karl Rove for the logo? It’s their organization and can put forward whatever image they care to, but it seems a bit confusing.
And that John Kerry sure has one big melon. Looks good in shorts, though.
March 12th, 2004 @ 5:08 pm
So why have they chosen the likeness of President Bush’s chief advisor Karl Rove for the logo? It’s their organization and can put forward whatever image they care to, but it seems a bit confusing.
And that John Kerry sure has one big melon. Looks good in shorts, though.
March 12th, 2004 @ 5:08 pm
So why have they chosen the likeness of President Bush’s chief advisor Karl Rove for the logo? It’s their organization and can put forward whatever image they care to, but it seems a bit confusing.
And that John Kerry sure has one big melon. Looks good in shorts, though.
March 12th, 2004 @ 5:08 pm
So why have they chosen the likeness of President Bush’s chief advisor Karl Rove for the logo? It’s their organization and can put forward whatever image they care to, but it seems a bit confusing.
And that John Kerry sure has one big melon. Looks good in shorts, though.
March 12th, 2004 @ 5:08 pm
So why have they chosen the likeness of President Bush’s chief advisor Karl Rove for the logo? It’s their organization and can put forward whatever image they care to, but it seems a bit confusing.
And that John Kerry sure has one big melon. Looks good in shorts, though.
March 12th, 2004 @ 5:08 pm
So why have they chosen the likeness of President Bush’s chief advisor Karl Rove for the logo? It’s their organization and can put forward whatever image they care to, but it seems a bit confusing.
And that John Kerry sure has one big melon. Looks good in shorts, though.
March 12th, 2004 @ 9:42 pm
I originally used a normal-sized Kerry head but then thought if I made it larger it would 1) be more recognizable and 2) provoke another dig at my Photoshopping skills from you.
March 13th, 2004 @ 2:18 pm
I think they will be confused with that man boy love association.
March 13th, 2004 @ 4:18 pm
is joe being memetious?
March 13th, 2004 @ 11:56 pm
memetious?
March 14th, 2004 @ 1:41 am
North American Man/Boy Love AssociationNorth American Man/Boy Love …
NAMBLA is an pedophile organization that believes it is their right to have
sex with children. What did New York do about NAMBLA’s non profit status. …
http://www.angelfire.com/tx/reachme/NAMBLA.html – 19k – Cached – Similar pages
March 14th, 2004 @ 1:09 pm
is “facetious” better? and i wasnt guessing you were
March 14th, 2004 @ 3:16 pm
From http://www.sadlyno.com
March 14, 2004
And Jesus Was Our First President
It’s time again for another laugh-filled episode of our new favorite sitcom, Everybody Loves Doug Giles.
This week, Doug is railing about those damned Communist/hippie history teachers, always claiming that the Founding Fathers were Deists or Unitarians or agnostics, instead of the Southern Baptists we know they were.
“No matter what your Marxist, lesbian, long-toothed, community college history teacher sporting a bad haircut, stretch pants and stale coffee breath says, the vast majority of the founding fathers of our great nation were deeply committed Christians. I
March 15th, 2004 @ 1:11 pm
I thought the holy land of Canaan and the Hebrew nation was the land god favors above all else!! When did he change his mind. Oh, right, when the “founding fathers” decided to say so.
Most of the “founding fathers” you speak of were actually atheist. Ben Franklin, Abraham lincoln, and a good portion of the rest, all atheist.
And you’ve touched a nerve there GSC:
I assure you, we here in CANADA are less god-honoring than you seem to think. That is to say, we’re not as bent outa shape about it as Americans seem to be. We have been described as more “european” than north-american (pot’s legal now, and I live in the one place where the best pot in the world is grown – BC – WOO!And in Ontario it’s legal for women to be out in public topless in the summer – OH CANADA!! WOO WOO!!)
We took the lord’s prayer out of school more than a decade ago. And we have been teaching evolution in school just as long because it’s the proven scientific facts, plain and simple, whether someone likes it or not.
We also don’t waste as much time sticking our noses in other people’s business. Same-sex marriages are not as big deal. That’s not to say we don’t have our religious zealots. That whole “James Brother of Jesus” ostuary fiasco was brilliantly executed (and equally brilliantly botched) by none other than a Canadian.
I, personally, believe that education is in direct correlation to these differences. Our level of illiteracy in Canada is almost non-existant. Amd without (as much) focus on god and religion we have more time to spend on academic persuits.
We also don’t direct our national budget towards making war as much as other countries. We may be more vulnerable to invasion but we spend the resources other things like health-care, space exploration, and other more productive things.
Then again, we also have more room to breath. We have twice or more as much land mass as the US and our entire population is smaller than the US’s prison population alone. Granted, a huge portion of that land is flat, barren, frozen waste-land, but you get the point.
I am (obviously) proud to be Canadian, but I have lived amoung Americans too. My mother is American and I lived in Portland Or. for a few years when I was younger. I came away with an appreciation for our neighbors that I believe most Canadians don’t have. But it also gave me more appreciation for being Canadian.
FYI: In British Columbia (where I live), we have all the climates available on earth – desert, arctic, etc. (I live in Canada’s rain-forest), in ONE PROVINCE.
If we have that much diversity in weather, imagine what our incredibly rich culture is like! Please come visit us any time, you’ll like it here (especially Vancouver and Vancouver Island, or as I call it; Paradise).
For further information on Canada and our cultural traditions, go to http://www.canada.com – You can read any of our newspapers nation-wide on this site (for insite as to where I myself live, type Nanaimo in the “city” field). Or just feel free to ask.
Once again RA, this is a beautiful site and I’m glad to be part of it.
March 15th, 2004 @ 6:03 pm
Hey, all right, Kaptain Killjoy! I’m originally from the States but I’ve lived in Southern Ontario for the past 34 years, so I guess now I’m an AmeriCanadian. The US Army stationed me in Toronto for the seventies, nudge nudge wink wink say no more!
My wife and I drove out to BC last summer and visited your marvellous province, and now we want to move there… can we sleep on your sofa for a few weeks? Ha ha just kidding.
March 15th, 2004 @ 8:36 pm
I don’t have a “sofa” (we call them couches here – kidding), I sleep outside (also kidding). But we do love deserters here, WELCOME!! (I’m on your side, if we had a draft I’d move to the states).
So really, You live in the big “T”? How’s the toppless women? Everybody there wants to move here. It’s as close to paradise as it gets here (especially if you come from a place where winters are -40 c. COLD!!). Did you visit the island?
March 15th, 2004 @ 10:52 pm
The Ontario topless thing turned out to be (wait for it!) a big bust. Once women were granted the court-ordered right to go topless, they just completely lost interest! I suppose there’s a lesson there someplace, but I’m damned if I can figure it out. Sorta like every other lesson I tend to get from women. Sigh. Maybe if some judge ordered them NOT to have sex with men it would increase their interest a wee bit!
But yes, we loved Vancouver Island! Pam’s aunt lives in Comox, so we spent a coupla days there. We also loved the Sunshine Coast. And Victoria. And Vancouver. But next time out there, our goal is to visit some of the Gulf Islands.
March 16th, 2004 @ 1:49 pm
The Gulf Islands, the San Juan’s, It’s so frikkin’ beautiful here. I’ve tried moving to other places and, just like everyone else that tries to leave, ended up back here. The ocean has some sort of mezmerizing “yes master, I hear and I obey” kind of effect on me.
Victoria is, by far, the most beautiful city, and best place all around, that I’ve lived. HYPER-EXPENSIVE though. It costs almost twice as much to live in Victoria as it does Nanaimo (where I am now), only 100 KM away. Tourist mecca!! I sure miss it!
November 13th, 2005 @ 2:22 pm
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