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Machar is an inclusive community of people of all backgrounds, ages, and gender orientation, including intercultural and interfaith couples. The Association of Humanistic Rabbis supports an individual's right to marry someone based on love and the quality of their relationship, and the rights of rabbis to officiate and co-officiate at wedding ceremonies of people from different backgrounds.
The American Humanist Association (AHA) is a non-profit organization in the United States that advances secular humanism. [3]The American Humanist Association was founded in 1941 and currently provides legal assistance to defend the constitutional rights of secular and religious minorities, [4] lobbies Congress on church-state separation and other issues, [5] and maintains a grassroots network ...
The Fellowship of Humanity is a humanist church in Oakland, California, founded in 1935 by Reverend A. D. Faupell as part of the American Religious Humanism movement. It was an offshoot of the First Unitarian Church of Oakland, where A. D. Faupell had been teaching Sunday school, and was inspired in part by Upton Sinclair’s campaign for governor of California under the banner of EPIC, End ...
In 2014, secular solstice events were also held in Oakland, California (in the Humanist Hall at the Fellowship of Humanity), as well as in Seattle, San Diego, and Leipzig, Germany. [ 3 ] [ 8 ] To fund the 2014 Solstice, Raymond Arnold created another Kickstarter funding round which raised $8,157 from 164 backers. [ 9 ]
In June 1999, the Institute for Humanist Studies, Inc., was incorporated in the state of New York. With financial support from Larry Jones, the founding president of the institute, the organization began its work as an educational non-profit institute, with the purpose of providing information to policymakers and others in order to advance humanism as a life philosophy.
This new alliance was a response to the urgent need to defend humanism against the assaults of its enemies and to find an effective way to bring the message of humanism to a wider public. It was at this meeting that the Humanist Institute was voted to be established. [3] It was at this meeting that NACH founded The Humanist Institute.
Humanists International is particularly active in challenging blasphemy and apostasy laws around the world and at the UN. Its annual Freedom of Thought Report indexes the world's countries by treatment of the non-religious and their commitment to freedom of thought and expression.
Pages in category "Humanist associations" The following 65 pages are in this category, out of 65 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...