Religion and Politics

Bullied for Not Believing in God

James Hamblin of The Atlantic covers the emergence of Secular Safe Zone, an initiative by the nonprofit advocacy group Secular Student Alliance (SSA). Launched to combat discrimination and bullying against nonreligious/secular students, “the initiative is modeled off of Gay Alliance’s LGBT Safe Zone program … in that it allows mentors at schools to explicitly demarcate spaces where ‘students know that bullying won’t be tolerated,'” Hamblin writes.

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