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Thank you for your courage and for representing the minority secular humanists!

Juan – just saw your prayer on the Last Word (MSNBC). Awesome job! Very heartfelt. Keep it up!!!

Marc (eastern Washington State)

I am fully behind Juan in this week’s prayer controversy. There was no reason for any “repentance.” As a Unitarian Universalist, I am glad this issue is coming to the fore. Do not ask god to bless Amerika, work to make it better yourself.

Thank you for standing up against the insidious religiosity in government that violates the Constitution, and for your sanity in being a Secular Humanist.

Thank you for your wonderful “Don’t bow your head” speech. It was so refreshing and real. I live in NJ and have a lot of respect for you.

Dear Representative Mendez:


Thank you so much for your secular invocation! I admire your courage to be who you really are, and to come out as a secular humanist instead of a theist. This country needs more public officials like you. It gives me great hope for the future of this country to see reason trump superstition and myth. Thank you again for promoting ethics and compassion without the hollow invocation of a god or religion.

Bravo! I’m a little less embarrassed for Arizona and more proud of the churchless than I have recently been.

Excellent “prayer,” Congressman Mendez!

Thanks for representing humanists with such eloquence.

(And quoting Sagan was a really nice touch!)

A deep heartfelt hank you for your secular invocation. I, too, hope you start a new trend of publicly acknowledging the legitimacy of Human Secularism. Although I live in Oregon now, I am thrilled to know that we DO have at least one thoughtful caring person in the house who represents ideas that align to the millions of people like me. It is a heavy burden, and sometimes a scary path to diverge away from those who are so indocrinated into their perspective religions that they make the country unsafe for those who believe in living our best, one and only life, here on earth as human beings. You have the makings of a great leader. Again, thank you for your courage, and best of luck in your political career.

I will be routing for you, and voting for you if ever consider the presidency!

As a long time skeptic, thanks for your courage.

Thank you Rep. Mendez, for your heartfelt prayer yesterday at the legislature and for your courage. You are a true inspiration. The political arena needs more people like you who are true, brave and authentic individuals.

Thank you for your secular invocation. Here’s hoping you will start a new trend of publicly acknowledging the legitimacy of atheism and agnosticism. I live in Delaware, which, although a very blue state, has pockets of hard-core right-wing nuts who continue to insist on the unconstitutional mingling of church and state. Again, thank you for your courage, and best of luck in your political career.

Dear Rep. Mendez,

I wanted to give you sincere and heartfelt thanks for the way you opened the House session this week. As an atheist myself, it was heartening to see a politician be open about secular humanism. With the the degree of negativity aimed at atheists, agnostics, and secularists (and anyone else who doesn’t subscribe to a mainstream religion) it took a lot of courage and chutzpah to do what you did. Thank you again Rep. Mendez. You have given a lot of us hope.

Thank you so much for blazing the trail in secularism in the government. Long overdue and MUCH needed! Hoping other district representatives (including my own), and ALL branches of government will follow suit …. we are gaining in strength out here, and you have so much support behind you! Thank you!

I want to THANK YOU, for doing the right thing in leading the house in a secular moment. I watched a video and I loved what you said. It is people like you that I wish were in the majority in our government.

Hello Mr. Mendez,
I just wanted to write and thank you for your decency and courage, I am referring to this recent statement made by you in pre-session prayer:


. “I would like to ask that you not bow your heads. I would like to ask that you take a moment to look around the room at all of the men and women here, in this moment, sharing together this extraordinary experience of being alive and of dedicating ourselves to working toward improving the lives of the people in our state.”


You are wonderful, thank you! I wish I could be one of your constituents, moreover I wish we had many more representatives like you in every state.


Sincerely,

Tammy Shenkel

I would like to thank you for the courage and insight you displayed with your secular invocation to the house. Your statement was thoughtful, inclusive and profound and representative of what I feel are some of the best values of the secular community. Kudos to you for providing such a message of morality that is detached from the usual superstitious mumbo-jumbo. And kudos for the courage you display in standing up to the religious bigots who plague this nation.


I wish that you were a representative for my state and district but will hope that others here and elsewhere will follow where you lead.

Hello Mr. Mendez, thank you for being one of the first politicians to acknowledge secular thought. It is brave and needed. I am not in your district, but I want you to know that there are a lot of humanists, freethinkers, and non-theists that are supporting you right now!

Thank you Juan for standing up to the Christians that cram their religion down everyone’s throat at every opportunity You are my hero!

Loved your Sagan quotation and the positive spirit of your secular humanist speech. Thank you from Winnipeg, Canada!