{"id":3211,"date":"2015-02-26T15:53:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T21:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3211"},"modified":"2015-02-26T15:53:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T21:53:10","slug":"jamila-bey-speaks-at-cpac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2015\/02\/26\/jamila-bey-speaks-at-cpac\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamila Bey speaks at CPAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u6n-boUoPpo<\/p>\n<p>[Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2015\/02\/atheist-jamila-bey-tells-cpac-it-needs-to-embrace-secular-voters-and-gets-the-golf-clap\/\" target=\"_blank\">RawStory<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Some people are going to be predictably upset about having an openly secular woman speaking at a politically conservative conference, but I&#8217;m all for it. Why talk to a roomful of people who already agree with you (as Bey did here at <a href=\"http:\/\/lanyrd.com\/2013\/freeok\" target=\"_blank\">FreeOK<\/a>) when you can talk to a roomful of people who disagree with you on something substantively important and are therefore in a position to have their minds opened, at least a wee bit?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve no idea just how conservative Jamila really is, but I do know a handful of atheists and skeptics who identify as conservative, and\u00a0more than a\u00a0few self-identified conservatives who do not believe religion is central to their conception of conservatism. While I do not personally identify as either conservative or progressive, I hold open the possibility that either side may yet be proven correct on various social or economic issues, and I stand against those who demand stricter political purity tests within freethought as a movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u6n-boUoPpo [Via RawStory] Some people are going to be predictably upset about having an openly secular woman speaking at a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","category-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}