At Bernie Sanders’ Kickoff Rally, Campaign Co-Chair Gives Shout-Out to Atheists
By Hemant Mehta, March 3, 2019

During the Brooklyn kickoff for Bernie Sanders‘ 2020 presidential campaign, his national co-chair, Nina Turner, gave a shout-out to atheists (among others) as she told the crowd who Sanders was representing in his run.

Spoiler: It’s literally everyone.

… and so I say, Brooklyn, that you should be proud that the son of this city has been standing on the front lines for a very long time. Standing up for working people in this country. Black, white, brown, red, yellow, and the swirl in between. Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer. Jew, gentile, Christian, Buddhist, atheist. Standing up for the people! That’s the measure of a man.

It’s just rhetoric, but it’s good to be included in that mix. The next step is for the candidates to make a more direct case for church/state separation and why this administration’s appeals to a specific kind of conservative Christian need to end.