While I’m not a member (I’m Canadian) I think that we all have a right to know the truth here, considering the fact that this is such a large and influential organization.

The problem for me is not whether this was the right decision to make or not, it’s the fact that it has been done behind closed doors with no explanation. The expectation that atheists should find this approach acceptable is insulting.

If I was a member I’d seriously consider resigning over this.

I’m going to continue promoting their organization on my site for now and just see where this goes.

I hope they’ll man up and tell the truth.

We are extremely biased in her favor, because we found her to be hard-working, honest, courageous, competent and caring of us and appreciative of our volunteer contributions.

This board’s action, in our opinion, will almost certainly result in the end of the organization and publication as we know it. We say this because, from first-hand experience we are aware of the number of hours, the amount of coordination and the knowledge of the operation that are all required to successfully produce a monthly publication, and we have no evidence that any of the board members are willing and able to invest that degree of commitment. Indeed, we have some reason to believe that the opposite is true. To those members who propose hiring Dawkins, Hitchins, Harris and others for the presidency, first see if they’ll agree to work for 38K, or thereabouts, in addition to doing latrine duty in their spare time.

For the board of directors of the most well-known Atheist group in America to have taken such a suicidal action is incomprehensible, but whatever their reasons, unless the
members protest strongly and demand her reinstatement, (which she may not even want) it will only be a matter of time before we no longer have an organization to uphold the civil rights of Atheists.

As a contributor of many articles to this magazine, and as volunteers in editing other journal articles, spending many hours of our time in assisting Ellen in producing this publication, we are no longer interested in writing, editing or assisting in any way a magazine whose board has acted in such an irresponsible, unfair and self-destructive manner.

Gil and Jeanne R. Gaudia

Hopefully this gets resolved soon.

With all the amazing atheists out there who are excellent speakers as well as fantastic debaters- Ron Barrier, or Annie Laurie Gaylor are two great examples, it highlights the fact that Ellen was a really awful representative.

That’s creepy. I expect churches and politicians tell me to turn my brain off, not atheist organizations.

Well, Ellen’s prank in telling atheists not to vote was enough for me to lose any respect I might have had for her. That was the dumbest thing I’ve heard anyone say in a very long time.

Yes. But she was so hot, it was easy to overlook various lapse of judgments.

Frank Zindler is not nearly as hot.

And yeah, that website of theirs is pretty bad.