NEW COALITION: Like Minds.(living)

Publication: Las Vegas Review-Journal (Las Vegas, NV)

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BYLINE: JOHN PRZYBYS, 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.

In January, representatives of 24 humanist, atheist and nontheist organizations assembled in Washington, D.C., to discuss what they consider an alarming erosion in the wall that separates church and state.

Spearheading the humanist summit was Mel Lipman, a semiretired Las Vegas attorney who's president of both the American Humanist Association and the Humanist Association of Las Vegas and Southern Nevada. Out of the meeting...

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