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The American branch of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (RDFRS (US)) is pleased to announce that Sean Faircloth is to join us as our Director of Strategy and Policy. Sean is the author of the upcoming book Attack of the Theocrats! How the Religious Right Harms Us All- —and What We Can Do About It. Faircloth trained as a lawyer, and made his name as an accomplished legislator through ten years in the Maine legislature. He became the Executive Director of the Secular Coalition for America, in which capacity he served as a lobbyist for secular causes in Washington and built up a reputation around the country as a very effective public speaker and movement strategist.

Faircloth’s provocative book exposes, with devastating impact, the privileging of religion in law and in American society. He names and shames fifty of the most flagrantly theocratic Members of Congress, and concludes on a positive note with a ten point vision for an America that must return to its secular roots.

Richard Dawkins welcomed Sean Faircloth as a man who “has a proven ability to strategize, organize, and energize -- qualities essential to making secularism a successful social movement. Sean wrote the Secular Decade plan while Executive Director of Secular Coalition for America and led the early stages of its implementation. Now he will bring his skills to an even wider audience. I want him out speaking far and wide.”

Prof. Dawkins continued, “I have invited Sean Faircloth to join me in my book tour in the United States this September and October because, having read an advance copy of his book and written its Foreword, I know that its message is critically important and must reach a broad audience, particularly as we approach America’s 2012 elections. The trend toward theocratic thinking in the United States is a danger not only for America but for the entire world. Sean Faircloth’s ability to articulate this problem and offer specific solutions is why he will be such an an important new member of our team. As Director of Strategy and Policy at RDFRS (US) he will work with secular groups of all stripes, including his contacts in the Secular Coalition for America, to strategize and organize.”

Faircloth will comment regularly on www.richarddawkins.net, one of the busiest websites in secularism. His focus will be public policy, speaking out regarding the dangers of theocratic laws, and the value of scientific policy. His book will be released February 2012. He is available for public speaking engagements on behalf of RDFRS (US). Sean can be contacted at RDFRS by e-mail at sean.faircloth@richarddawkins.net

Sean Faircloth, is the Director of Strategy and Policy RDFRS U,S.. He is author of the upcoming book Attack of the Theocrats: How the Religious Right Harms Us All and What We Can Do About It. Advance copies are available in the RDFRS store in the link above. Faircloth served ten years in the Maine legislature. In his final term he was elected Majority Whip by his caucus colleagues. At the Secular Coalition for America Faircloth devised and led the Secular Decade strategic plan. Faircloth speaks widely on separation of church and state, the Constitution, and secular strategy.

Faircloth served as opening speaker for Richard Dawkins Fall 2011 tour of the United States, and he will do so again in spring 2012.

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