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📅 October 6, 2024

🕛 Sunday, 11 AM - 5:30 PM
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The details on this page are from last year's event. They will be updated soon.

This Year's Lineup

Ricky Brock "CaptainDadPool"
Our Emcee
Dr. Anthony Pinn
Professor and Author Rice University
Rob Boston
Writer, Advocate, Activist Americans United
Elbe Spurling
Artist and Author
Fish Stark
Executive Director, American Humanist Association
Kavin Senapathy
Science Journalist and Author
Julia B. Levine
Poet Laureate of Davis

Jim Underdown
Writer, Investigator, Science Advocate Center for Inquiry
Thomas Smith
Host of Serious Inquiries Only
Jason Topry
Former Army Captain Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers
Sen. Susan Talamantes Eggman
Awardee*
Rachel Klinger Cain
Author and TikTok Educator
Laura Heywood
Organizer, Awardee Sunday Assembly San Diego
Don Knutson
Community Volunteer
Lydia Smith
Podcaster
Andy Swan
Uncle Sam
egghorn
Indie Musician
Danielle Jones
Student Scholarship Winner*
Sean O'Brien
Performing as Robert Ingersoll


And more to come!
* These individuals will be recognized at our event, but regret that they cannot attend in person.

This Year's Theme

In our twenty-third year, we take a united stand against theocracy and bigotry. We’ve had enough of voter disenfranchisement. We are done with tax exemptions for clergy. We’re saying goodbye to vouchers that syphon money from public education and we’re kicking gerrymandered districts to the curb. We are so finished with book bans. We’re saying “Bye Felicia” to the bigots and haters who are more afraid of drag shows than school shootings. We are well past the naysayers of climate change and evolutionary theory. And we’ve moved on with the people who want to tell us what we can and can’t do with our own bodies. Their idea of “religious freedom” is quite clearly the freedom to practice only their religion – it’s a theocracy that we will not allow to advance. As a secular community, if there’s one thing we can worship, let it be the common good. If there’s a creed we follow, it’s that every person’s vote is precious and of equal weight. Our gospel? The voice of the people. And our sacred ritual? Casting our vote. If we have a savior, it’s not found in any tome, temple, or church — it’s in democracy. The core values of California Freethought Day are to celebrate secular rights, civic engagement, scientific achievement, social justice, and the freedom of speech and thought. But never in our twenty-three years have these values been as threatened as they are right now. And so, let us unite – today at the Capitol and next month at the polls – unite against theocracy and religious bigotry.