Celebrate National Day of Reason on May 5
The official National Day of Reason website is www.nationaldayofreason.org, where visitors can:
- Add their name to a list of endorsers of the National Day of Reason
- Register a local National Day of Reason event
- Learn how to encourage your local government official to recognize the National Day of Reason
- Share the National Day of Reason through Facebook and Twitter
The National Day of Reason is held every year on the first Thursday in May to celebrate reason—a concept that all Americans can support—and to raise public awareness of the threat to religious liberty posed by government intrusion into the private sphere of worship. The National Day of Reason is celebrated by humanists, atheists, agnostics, freethinkers, and other nontheists in opposition to the National Day of Prayer, led by fundamentalist Christian Shirley Dobson and represented by a small segment of Protestant Christianity.
The American Humanist Association opposes the National Day of Prayer because it violates the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, asking federal and local governments to set aside tax dollar supported time and space to engage in religious ceremonies, resulting in unconstitutional governmental support of religion. In addition, the National Day of Prayer is government sponsored, and government officials of all levels participate in these events as if they were government endorsed.
On May 5, 2011, we ask that members and supporters of the American Humanist Association support the National Day of Reason by attending a local National Day of Reason event, adding your name to our list of endorsers, and encourage your local government official to proclaim May 5 as National Day of Reason.
If you are active on Facebook, consider changing your profile picture to the National Day of Reason logo, which you can download from the website. For Twitter users, use the hashtag #dayofreason and follow our updates.
The National Day of Reason website is hosted by the American Humanist Association and the Washington Area Secular Humanists. To learn more, visit www.nationaldayofreason.org.