From: Hogan Gidley [mailto:HoganG@elizabethdole.org]
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Subject: PRESS RELEASE
- "GODLESS AMERICANS PAC?"
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Contact: Hogan Gidley
Tuesday, August 26,
2008
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651-7096
“GODLESS AMERICANS PAC?”
Hagan Heads to Boston for Fundraiser
in the Home of Leading Anti-Religion Activists
Salisbury, N.C. –
On September 15th, Kay Hagan is heading to Boston, Massachusetts to
attend a fundraiser for her Senate campaign. What may surprise mainstream
North Carolinians is that the fundraiser will be in the home of leading
anti-religion activists Wendy Kaminer and her lawyer husband Woody Kaplan -- who
is on the advisory board of the "Godless Americans Political Action Committee."
Kaminer is the author of Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials, in
which one reviewer said Kaminer is ". . . trying to save us from ‘the perils of
piety’-the pestilence of organized religion and its encroachment on public life.
Should we be surprised that Katha Pollitt, atheist-in-chief at The Nation and
author of a book called Reasonable Creatures, has given Kaminer's book a gushing
blurb?” (Norah Vincent, Op-Ed, “Unbelievable,” National Review, 11/22/99)."
Kaminer is also an advisory board member (Woody is the chairman)
of The Secular Coalition for America which is "the national lobby for
atheists, humanists, freethinkers and other nontheistic Americans with the
unique mission of protecting their civil rights.” (Secular Coalition For
America, Press Release, 1/16/08)
Kaminer's husband, Woody Kaplan,
is also an advisor to the Godless Americans Political Action Committee which
sees itself as a counter-force to religious groups in public policy
debates.
"Kay Hagan is trying to run a campaign in North Carolina
that casts her as a moderate but the money that's paying for it is coming from
the left-wing fringe of political thought," said Dole
Campaign Communications Director Dan McLagan. "You can tell a
lot about a person by their friends and these are friends most North Carolinians
would not be comfortable having over for dinner."
Hagan's
campaign is being largely funded by labor unions intent on ending North
Carolina's status as a right to work state, liberal trial lawyers and ultra left
wing groups like MoveOn.org which is a deeply anti-military organization.
Now Hagan has added anti-religion activists from Boston Massachusetts to
the list.
"Kay Hagan does not represent the values of this state;
she is a Trojan Horse for a long list of wacky left-wing outside groups bent on
policies that would horrify most North Carolinians if they knew about it,"
McLagan said. "This latest revelation of support from anti-religion
activists will not sit well with the 90% of state residents who identify with a
specific religious faith."
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Hogan
Gidley
Communications Director
hogan@elizabethdole.org
Elizabeth Dole Committee
P. O. Box 2629
Salisbury, NC 28145
ph: 704-633-0014
fx: 704-636-4823