Reed Secular Alliance

Although religion is often benign, it is dangerous when dogma harms children.  Recently, Ava Worthington, the girl whose parents rejected conventional medicine on religious grounds, died at just fifteen months of pneumonia and a blood infection.  A course of antibiotics could have cured her. While Worthington’s parents have been charged with manslaughter, several readers of [...]

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The Survivor of a Christian Boot Camp Speaks Out  By:  Leslie A. Zukor Michele Ulriksen was a relatively normal Southern California teen, back in the summer of 1986.  She enjoyed the warm sun, secular music, and drank on occasion.  She even snuck out to smoke and get drunk a few times.  She watched MTV, wore red [...]

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Reed Secular Alliance President Leslie Zukor’s Letter to the Editor was published on OregonLive.com on Tuesday, Febuary 10th.  In it, she defended the ethics of atheists and their capacity to do good works.  She also discusses her own service with the Freethought Books Project, as well as that of her peers, one group of which [...]

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The Westboro Baptist Church is known for its controversial eschatology and its hatred of homosexuals.  But is there a psychological basis for Pastor Fred Phelps’s hatred?  How better to find out than to listen to Phelps’s estranged children.  In this video, the children who have left the fold say that their father’s ill will toward [...]

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The Reed College Freethinkers are now the Reed Secular Alliance! Club “scribe”, Secretary Tina Le believes that this will be a good change, because it emphasizes the “coalitional nature” of the club. Members may not agree on everything, but we still work together, because of our common secular framework. Of the name Freethinkers, club Vice-President, [...]

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The Freethinkers’ Provocative Logo From the beginning, the Reed College Freethinkers were beset by controversy. Led by passionate Signator Leslie Zukor, the group was criticized for using the term “Freethinkers”. Instead of looking the word up on Wikipedia to understand its practical applications, more theoretically minded Reedies accused the club of implying that non-members were [...]

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Welcome to the home of the Reed College Freethinkers. Leslie Zukor founded the Freethinkers after she took a year off from Wellesley College and transferred to Reed College, closer to her Washington home. At Wellesley, Zukor was President of the Wellesley Alliance For Life, and it was there where she had her first encounters with [...]

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