Gordon Gamm
As a lawyer, Gordon Gamm has represented most of the major humanist organizations in the United States: the American Humanist Association, Center for Inquiry, Society for Humanistic Judaism, American Ethical Union, and humanists in the Unitarian Universalist Association. He has also explained humanism to state and federal courts, including the US Supreme Court. And he has served as a board member of the AHA and is one of the founders of the Humanist Legal Society.
Posts by Gordon Gamm
The Electoral Theology of Trumpism
Donald Trump’s 2024 victory depended heavily on White evangelical or born-again Christian voters. National exit polling estimated that they constituted approximately 23 percent of... Read More
A Humanist Perspective on The Death Penalty, Authoritarian Authority, and Universal Human Rights
The contemporary geography of the death penalty reveals a striking pattern. Capital punishment is increasingly concentrated in a small minority of states, many of... Read More
Faith, Authority, and the Lure of Certainty
THE RISE OF THE NAZI PARTY did not emerge from a cultural vacuum. It was enabled by a psychological and social environment receptive to... Read More
Guarding Women’s Freedom, Protecting Everyone’s Rights: Why Humanists Must Keep Church and State Separate
Women’s History Month is a time to honor not only the women whose names appear in our textbooks, but also those whose courage helped... Read More
Faith in Freedom: Why Secular Democracy Protects the Sacred and the Human
Across history, every society has faced the same temptation — to surrender the complexity of freedom for the simplicity of certainty. Today, that temptation... Read More
Why Donald Trump’s Most Loyal Supporters Remain Fiercely Devoted to Him
For years, political observers have struggled to understand why Donald Trump’s most loyal supporters remain fiercely devoted to him—even when confronted with facts about... Read More
The U.S. Supreme Court Case of United States v. Skrmetti Violates the Separation of Church and State
In United States v. Skrmetti, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors. The majority concluded that the... Read More