Locked Out of the Conservative Club

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 Days after being disinvited from next week's Conservative Political Action Conference, American Atheists called on the conservative movement to sever its "close ties to dogmatic religious beliefs."

"We want to raise the question about the close ties between conservatism and religion," says the organization that was founded in 1963 by non-theist Madalyn Murray O'Hair on its website, explaining why it wants to participate in CPAC 2014, scheduled to take place March 6-8 near Washington, D.C.

"We want to bring the message to CPAC that there are millions of conservatives out there who are turned off and alienated by the conservative movement's close ties to dogmatic religious beliefs," the atheist group says.

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/american-atheists-tells-cpac-to-sever-ties-with-christianity-115458/

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