{"id":10905,"date":"2012-03-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/03\/27\/atheists-rally-on-national-mall-to-call-for-political-attention\/"},"modified":"2012-03-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T12:00:00","slug":"atheists-rally-on-national-mall-to-call-for-political-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/03\/27\/atheists-rally-on-national-mall-to-call-for-political-attention\/","title":{"rendered":"Atheists Rally on National Mall To Call for Political Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Religion News Service<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, March 2012 (RNS): Atheists and nonbelievers gathered on the National Mall Saturday (March 24) in a bid to show politicians, voters and even themselves that they have grown into a force to be recognized and reckoned with.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are here to deliver a message to America,&#8221; David Silverman, president of American Atheists, one of the rally&#8217;s sponsors, told the crowd. &#8220;We are here and we will never be silent again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jesse Galef, a spokesman for the Reason Rally, said diversity is a major goal of its 20 nontheistic sponsoring organizations. &#8220;We can&#8217;t succeed if we are only coming from one demographic,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The rally&#8217;s speakers touched on many issues that unite nontheists &#8212; separation of church and state, science education, equality, rights for women and the influence of religion on politics, among them. Politics was a common theme, as many nontheists are concerned about the fundamentalist beliefs of some Republican presidential candidates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religion News Service WASHINGTON, March 2012 (RNS): Atheists and nonbelievers gathered on the National Mall Saturday (March 24) in a,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}