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Politicians and media are using religion to destroy America...

Forty to 60 humanists, atheists, nontheists, secular Jews and ethical culturalists began an emergency summit yesterday at a Dupont Circle hotel to discuss strategy over how to fight President Bush's faith-based initiatives planned for his second term. "The situation is now as bad as we'll ever see it," said Roy Speckhardt, deputy director of the American Humanist Association (AHA), a conglomeration of 80 grass-roots activist groups that promote humanism, a philosophy of living without supernatural influences. Mr. Speckhardt said this year's so-called "inauguration summit" dwarfs a similar 1981 meeting at the University of Maryland after Ronald Reagan won the White...