"We're speaking up for reason," says Lyz Liddell, the executive director of the Reason Rally Coalition composed of leading atheist, secular and humanist organizations. (Hear the full-length In These Times interview with Provenza about comedy, atheism and the Reason Rally here.) But attendees of the "Reason Rally" at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday, where as many as 30,00 atheists, agnostics, freethinkers and their allies are expected to attend, want to see that change. "We are finding a community and celebrating to choose what we believe based on reason and not on fairy tales." They may be the most invisible interest group in American politics: secular Americans who now make up nearly a quarter of the American population, according to recent Gallup and Pew Research polls.

Source: Huffington Post June 04, 2016 06:45 UTC