This is the weekly summary of the Humanist Network News (HNN). The Humanist Network News (HNN) is published every Wednesday via e-mail and on the Institute for Humanist Studies (IHS) Web site. This diary is a slightly reformatted copy of the weekly email they send me, which I post here every Thursday. (CP @ DKos, MLW, BT)

September 7, 2005
Humanist Network News
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  1. New Orleans humanists worry for safety of members after hurricane Katrina
  2. Atheists, humanists to send relief to hurricane Katrina victims
  3. IHS honors the advancement of women
  4. Secular Coalition for America doubles staff
  5. Two vacancies on the High Court
  6. Of God and Secularism
  7. Letters to the Editor
  8. Sweet Reason, religious mothers won’t let sons date me
  9. Film Review: Grizzly Man
  10. Media Roundup
  11. Cathartic Comics
  12. Poll of the Week

Summaries and links across the jump. As always, if one of these stories captures your interest, feel free to write a more in-depth diary.

1. New Orleans humanists worry for safety of members after hurricane Katrina
Humanist Network News contacted the New Orleans Secular Humanist Association (NOSHA) to ask whether members are safe:MORE

2. Atheists, humanists to send relief to hurricane Katrina victims
Organizations that promote secular values in the U.S. are offering ways for non-religious Americans to provide financial help to the victims of hurricane Katrina:MORE

3. IHS honors the advancement of women
IHS staff are attending the Center for the Advancement of Women’s tenth anniversary gala in New York City today:MORE

4. Secular Coalition for America doubles staff
Just one week after hiring the nation’s first congressional lobbyist for the nonreligious, the Secular Coalition for America has hired a second: MORE

5. Two vacancies on the High Court
The death of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist on Saturday leaves two vacancies on the U.S. Supreme Court — a situation offering President George W. Bush the opportunity to shape the ideology of the Court for decades to come: MORE

6. Of God and Secularism
IHS public policy expert Tim Gordinier deconstructs the word “secular”: is it about neutrality, or atheism?”: MORE

7. Letters to the Editor
HNN heard from readers on Katrina, atheism as a religion, Klingons, and Joel Pelletier’s “American Fundamentalists”: MORE

8. Sweet Reason, religious mothers won’t let sons date me
Your significant other’s parent hates atheists. Now what? MORE

9. Film Review: Grizzly Man
Carolyn Braunius reviews a “stark reminder that nature sometimes bites back” : MORE

10. Media Roundup
Media links on hurricane Katrina, religion and science:MORE

11. Cathartic Comics
An assortment of cartoons and comic strips about humanism, atheism, religion, science and freethought LINK

12. Poll of the Week
How should humanists donate to hurricane relief efforts? VOTE

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If anything here interests you, you may also be interested in my diary on what it is like to be a secular humanist in today’s political climate: I Am The Boogeyman.

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