Always glad to listen to stories like this. No matter what the opinion, and I neither agree nor disagree with your positions, nor do I judge you for not participating in AA after Ellen was fired (as some would), I’m here to listen and try to understand everyone’s stance on this troublesome incident.

I tend to take the role of the “relief fag” after break-ups, deaths and other assorted losses. I’m the homo in the room with the upset broken-up-with girls and the Haagen-Dazs watching old Katharine Hepburn films. If you feel the need to unload, scream and holler or grieve, I’ll be glad to listen to you.

- Reed

We are extremely biased in her favor, because we found her to be hard-working, honest, courageous, competent and caring of us and appreciative of our volunteer contributions.

This board’s action, in our opinion, will almost certainly result in the end of the organization and publication as we know it. We say this because, from first-hand experience we are aware of the number of hours, the amount of coordination and the knowledge of the operation that are all required to successfully produce a monthly publication, and we have no evidence that any of the board members are willing and able to invest that degree of commitment. Indeed, we have some reason to believe that the opposite is true. To those members who propose hiring Dawkins, Hitchins, Harris and others for the presidency, first see if they’ll agree to work for 38K, or thereabouts, in addition to doing latrine duty in their spare time.

For the board of directors of the most well-known Atheist group in America to have taken such a suicidal action is incomprehensible, but whatever their reasons, unless the
members protest strongly and demand her reinstatement, (which she may not even want) it will only be a matter of time before we no longer have an organization to uphold the civil rights of Atheists.

As a contributor of many articles to this magazine, and as volunteers in editing other journal articles, spending many hours of our time in assisting Ellen in producing this publication, we are no longer interested in writing, editing or assisting in any way a magazine whose board has acted in such an irresponsible, unfair and self-destructive manner.

Gil and Jeanne R. Gaudia

” … organisation I’m involved with is planning on doing and saying before they do and say it and I want to know why.”

Not sure how many members AA has but your ultimatum is a highly ineffective way of running an organization. Anyway, good luck with your demands.