Update: They’re choosing another date.
Brilliant. Someone has scheduled a “Secular Leaders Summit” in Los Angeles for…May 17th.
The secular movement made tremendous advances in 2012 as atheists, agnostics, humanists, freethinkers and skeptics came “Out” and identified against the traditional religious majority. With the influx of prospective members, secular communities need to communicate and collaborate to manage the new opportunities and growing challenges.
We need to make 2013 the year of “Organize.” Together we can establish linkages, share best practices and expand the universe of available opportunities. The focus is on communication and collaboration to expand the movement.
Due to available space we ask you limit your representatives to two per group.
Please save the date, bring your best practices and ideas for the future.
Lunch will be provided.
I like that “please save the date.” Dude (it is a dude), I did save the date. A long time ago. I did save the date, for a conference that’s already scheduled. Save the date yourself, bro. (Hint: there are some secular leaders attending that already-scheduled conference. Quite a few of them.)
This was in a mass emailing from someone I don’t know; I don’t see anything about it online yet. I wonder if they’ll figure it out and change the date. Or perhaps it was deliberate.
The focus is on communication and collaboration to expand the movement. Right. Good start.