Author: Melody Hensley
Melody Hensley is the former Executive Director of the DC branch of the Center for Inquiry.
Introduction
To organize an event with a focus on issues affecting a particular group, be it religion, race, gender, or sexual orientation, is to endure accusations of tokenism—the idea that inequality and tensions can be papered-over by the superficial inclusion or promotion of a particular group for the sake of appearances. Such insincerity and posturing can …