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July/August Issue of the Humanist Magazine Hits Newsstands
The new issue features an article by Stuart Jordan, senior staff scientist (retired emeritus) at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, who defends climate science against climate-change contrarians.
http://www.thehumanist.org/
The AHA Urges the Senate Judiciary Committee to Question Elena Kagan on Church/State Issues
Today the American Humanist Association sent a letter to the Senate
Judiciary Committee asking them to pose specific questions to Supreme
Court nominee Elena Kagan regarding her views on the Establishment and
Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
http://www.americanhumanist.org/news/details/2010-06-the-senate-judiciary-committee-should-question-kagans
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THE AHA HOLDS ITS 69TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN SAN JOSE
June 3-6, 2010, Humanists met for one of the largest gatherings of humanists, atheists and freethinkers from across the country! The American Humanist Association's 69th Annual Conference was held in San Jose, California, and featured informative breakout sessions, banquets honoring humanist awardees, book signings by celebrity authors.
http://www.americanhumanist.org/HNN/details/2010-06-the-american-humanist-association-holds-69th-annual-c
The Texas State Board of Education Passes New Social Studies and U.S. History Curricula
The American Humanist Association speaks out against the new curricula, which undermine the separation of church and state and would infuse a more conservative tone into Texas classrooms, and have the potential of affecting students across the country.
http://www.americanhumanist.org/news/details/2010-05-humanists-decry-new-texas-social-studies-and-history-
"In Good We Trust"


A new AHA billboard has gone up in Moscow, ID. The latest in a series of
ads in the area, it makes a bold statement about the divisiveness of
the national motto, "In God We Trust," and challenges conventional
wisdom that religion has a monopoly on morality.
http://www.americanhumanist.org/news/details/2010-04-in-good-we-trust-says-new-humanist-billboard
"Future of Medicine" Cruise to the Bahamas
Join the Appignani Bioethics Center and its co-sponsors for a conference cruise -- to the Bahamas! -- leaving from and returning to Manhattan, New York, on board the luxurious Norwegian Jewel.

October 10-17, 2010
http://humanistbioethics.org/2010/06/annual-conference-the-future-of-medicine/

The American Humanist Association is saddened to announce the death of former two-time AHA President Lloyd Morain, a prominent businessman, philanthropist and revolutionary innovator of the humanist movement. Morain died yesterday at the age of 93 in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
The American Humanist Association sent a letter to Mayor Thompson of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania today, requesting she refrain from beginning mayoral staff meetings with a Christian prayer.
The American Humanist Association today strongly criticized an effort by a fundamentalist Christian organization to "return ‘In God We Trust' to every schoolroom in America." The American Family Association, a politically active right-wing Christian group, made this plea in an action alert to members on July 6, calling for supporters to back legislation that would reaffirm the "In God We Trust" motto and call for its placement in all public buildings, including schools (H.Con.Res. 274).
The American Humanist Association applauded two rulings by a federal district court judge in Boston yesterday that the Defense of Marriage Act violates the constitutional rights of married same-sex couples and of states to grant benefits to their own citizens. The rulings, which were handed down by Judge Joseph L. Tauro, declared that same-sex couples should be afforded the same federal benefits that other married couples enjoy and that DOMA violates the 10th Amendment by intruding on areas of exclusive state authority.
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