Levi Fragell (president, International Humanist and Ethical Union) Jerome Isaac Friedman (Nobel Laureate, Physics) Arun Gandhi (co-founder, M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence) Kendyl Gibbons (president, Unitarian Universalist Ministers Association) Babu R.R. Gogineni (executive director, International Humanist and Ethical Union) Sol Gordon (sexologist) Ethelbert Haskins (retired treasurer of the Humanist Foundation) Jim Herrick (editor, the New Humanist) Pervez Hoodbhoy (professor of physics at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan) Fran P. Hosken (editor, Women's International Network News) Joan Johnson Lewis (president, National Leaders Council of the American Ethical Union) Stefan Jonasson (immediate past president, HUUmanists) Larry Jones (president, Institute for Humanist Studies) Edwin Kagin (founder and director, Camp Quest) Beth Lamont (AHA NGO representative to the United Nations) Gerald A. Larue (professor emeritus of Biblical history and archaeology, University of Southern California) Joseph Levee (board member, Council for Secular Humanism) Ellen McBride (immediate past president, American Ethical Union) Lester Mondale (retired Unitarian Universalist minister and signer of Humanist Manifestos I and II) Henry Morgentaler (abortion rights pioneer) Stephen Mumford (president, Center for Research on Population and Security) William Murry (president and dean, Meadville Lombard Theological School) Sarah Oelberg (president, HUUmanists) Indumati Parikh (president, Center for the Study of Social Change, India) Philip Paulson (Church-state activist) Katha Pollitt (columnist, the Nation) Howard Radest (dean emeritus, the Humanist Institute) James "Amazing" Randi (magician, founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation) Larry Reyka (president, the Humanist Society) David Schafer (retired research physiologist, U.S. Veterans Administration) Eugenie Scott (executive director, National Center for Science Education) Michael Shermer (editor of Skeptic magazine) James R. Simpson (professor of international agricultural economics, Ryukoku University, Japan) Warren Allen Smith (editor and author) Matthew les Spetter (associate professor in social psychology at the Peace Studies Institute of Manhattan College, NY) Oliver Stone (Academy Award-winning filmmaker) John Swomley (professor emeritus of social ethics, St. Paul School of Theology) Robert Tapp (dean, the Humanist Institute) Carl Thitchener (co-minister, Unitarian Universalist Church of Amherst and of Canandaigua, New York) Maureen Thitchener (co-minister, Unitarian Universalist Church of Amherst and of Canandaigua, New York) Rodrigue Tremblay (Emeritus professor of economics and of international finance, Universite de Montreal, Quebec, Canada) Kurt Vonnegut (novelist) John Weston (ministerial settlement director, Unitarian Universalist Association) Edward O. Wilson (professor, Harvard University, and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner) Sherwin Wine (founder and president, Society for Humanistic Judaism) Nobel laureates 22 Nobel laureates signed the statement, these being: Philip W. Anderson (Physics, 1977) Paul D.