HAM Members & Friends:

Join us for this historic event, when Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) will give his first-ever public remarks on becoming the first member of the US Congress to openly deny belief in god.

Stark is a senior member of the influential Ways & Means Committee, a strong advocate for religious liberty and church-state separation, a Unitarian Universalist, and a veteran of the US Air Force.

He will deliver the 15th annual Alexander Lincoln memorial 'Harvard Humanist of the Year' lecture, presented by Harvard's Humanist Chaplaincy for atheists, agnostics and the non-religious; along with the Harvard SecularSociety.

Despite numerous surveys showing atheists to be the group Americans would be least likely to elect to political office, Stark denies that it takes courage to become the first admitted nontheist in the House. "What is courageous," he adds, "is to stand up in Congress and say, 'Let's tax the rich and give money to poor kids.’”

(This event, and most of our events, are co-sponsored with the Humanist Chaplaincy, Harvard University.)