Attack of the Theocrats!: How the Religious Right Harms Us All—and What We Can Do About It

by Faircloth, Sean

  Faircloth has spoken around the United States about the Constitution, children’s policy, obesity policy, and sex-crime law. He chaired a commission on sex-crime-law reform that led to substantive improvement in that area of law. He also chaired a commission on early childhood, as well as a commission regarding the citizen-initiative process.

  Faircloth graduated from the University of Notre Dame and has a law degree from the University of California Hastings College of the Law. He served as a state assistant attorney general and as a lobbyist for the Maine State Bar Association.

  In 2009 Faircloth became executive director of the Secular Coalition for America, advocating for separation of church and state and for greater acceptance of nontheist viewpoints in American life. As executive director of Secular Coalition for America, he conceived of and drafted the Secular Decade plan, and worked with the Coalition’s board and staff and many others to continually improve this plan, which offers a specific strategy for returning America to its secular roots.

  In 2011 Faircloth took his success with the Secular Decade plan to the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, where he serves as director of strategy and policy. Faircloth continues to help the member groups of the Secular Coalition, but he also works with all secular groups far and wide to strategize, plan, and frame policy issues. Faircloth speaks widely about the Constitution, the separation of church and state, American public policy, and secular strategy.