A Humanist Funeral Service and Celebration Tapa blanda - 2011

Corliss Lamont (1902-1995) wrote sixteen books and hundreds of pamphlets on subjects ranging from humanism to McCarthyism. His most well-known publication was The Philosophy of Humanism. He taught at Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, the New School for Social Research, and other universities. He also served as a director of the American Civil Liberties Union, was chairman of the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, was president of the American Humanist Association, and won court fights against censure by Senator McCarthy and mail censorship by the Central Intelligence Agency. He ran twice for the US Senate.

Beth K. Lamont (New York, NY) is an essayist and an executive board member of and a program director for the Humanist Society of Metropolitan New York and the Corliss Lamont Chapter of the American Humanist Association; she is also an initiator of the AHA’s Humanist Advocate Program. She is the author of Lefties Are in Their Right Minds.