Members of the U.S. House of Representatives and organizations promoting atheism, agnosticism and humanism announced the creation this week of the first Congressional Freethought Caucus.
The new caucus comes as the religious “nones” — those who claim no religious affiliation — jumped from about 16 percent of the U.S. population in 2007 to nearly 23 percent in 2014, according to the latest Pew data.
“Our democracy is impoverished, and the quality of our political candidates is diminished, if a quarter of the population is effectively banned from the electoral arena,” Ron Millar, political and PAC coordinator at the Center for Freethought Equality, said in a statement.
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