BHC News

The Brooklyn Humanist Community met again on Sunday, May 18th at the Kensington Library. We had a poetry reading, something that used to be a tradition for those of us who belonged to BSEC in the past. Although several of our readers could not make it, eight people read and it was a great success.

Tomorrow night we'll have our planning meeting. This should be pretty exciting because we need to decide whether we are going to incorporate as a nonprofit, a religious organization, or simply remain a social club with many activities, as we are doing now. I would like to see us move toward being a 501(c)(3) but that is going to depend on the group's decision.

We also need to decide whether to have a guest speaker from out of town. I feel very strongly that Curtis Gans can put us on the map. He's a known expert on the American electoral process and voting habits. The man is well respected on both sides of the political spectrum, and he has spoken all over the place, including before Congress.

So, I feel we can give him some publicity and his presence would be a real gift to us and a chance to make a name for ourselves as a new organization with the ability to attract some high-level speakers. I hope that I can convince the group to be willing to lay out some money (not all that much, even) in order to bring him here.

There's a lot riding on the meeting tomorrow night. I have my fingers crossed that all will turn out in a satisfactory way.