From the CrossTalkBlog:
“The advocacy group In God We Trust today ripped the Obama administration for meeting to plot political strategy with 60 atheist activists representing organizations comprising the Secular Coalition of America.
“It is one thing for Administration to meet with groups of varying viewpoints, but it is quite another for a senior official to sit down with activists representing some of the most hate-filled, anti-religious groups in the nation,” says In God We Trust’s Chairman Bishop Council Nedd.
Tina Tchen, the director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, will meet with representatives from groups that comprise the Coalition. The Coalition’s sponsoring organization’s include American Atheists, founded by Madalyn Murray O’Hare and the Freedom from Religion Foundation which is campaigning to stop the post office from issuing a stamp honoring Mother Teresa.”
Read the rest here.
The government regularly sits down with the most hate-filled religious groups in the nation. I see no difference, even if I thought the description was completely accurate.
Absolutely right. I don’t see what the problem is here.
It was the first time in history an administration has ever met with a non-theist community. This is more than “business as usual.” One of the complaints of the atheists was Christians in the military. Wondering how this will play out with the commander-in-chief’s agenda. As a military chaplain, it certainly concerns me, to say the least.