Becky Garrison

After a tornado victim reveals her atheism on CNN, an atheist campaign, led by a comedian, to help her family rebuild gains traction.

“We made it exceedingly easy for the Governor’s staff to find us and include us, but they chose not to do so. The exclusion of non-theists today no doubt deepened the hurt the people in the non-theist community are feeling. What principle was served by our exclusion, I don’t begin to understand.”

“As soon as you say ‘non-theists,’ it’s a negative thing. We should call ourselves ‘people believers.’ We believe in the common sense and the good will of people.”