Thanks, but no thanks. Atheists may be feared and hated, but our rights are not trampled, nor are we a discriminated class.
I don’t feel the burning need for a movement but we are discriminated against. At least here in Texas.
And religion – that’s under their control. So all those people that choose to be Jews, we should ship the off… wait, didn’t someone try that a while back?
Mineral rights! Rock on!
I’m with that and also abortion.
The right of a person to choose to check out, and the right of a pregnant female to chose to terminate the pregnancy (within some boundaries ie <20 weeks) should be easily fixed up.
When I first began to deal with it in my life, at the end of 2004, I could not see any way forward. It seemed impossibly scary and daunting. But only 2¾ years later, in 2007, it was the obvious course to just go right ahead with transition. I couldn’t have foreseen it at first, but those years 2004–2007 are when things really started to improve for us in terms of social acceptance, and I had the full support of management at work. I had to educate everyone in my company, but they were readily open to learning and accepting.
Yeah, I’d heard lots of unpleasant stories of difficulty in the courts. But in 2007 my name change went through as a routine procedure in less than 2 weeks as a judge simply signed off on it with no further to-do. All I had to do was drop off the application at the courthouse with a modest processing fee and my name change came in the mail just like that. It was far easier and less complicated than renewing one’s car registration.
Good way to put it. 
So, you’re discriminated against in Texas, doesn’t that mean you’ve achieved equality?
Or do you believe atheists have some special right to be the only people not discriminated against in Texas?
You are so correct. No doubt the Romans just before the collapse of their civilisation thought that they were at the “pinnacle”.
All civilizations eventually decay from within and collapse, so it’s just a matter of time before western civilization follows the Greeks, the Romans, the Spanish, the British, etc etc into decline.
Isn’t the obvious answer Marijuana Enthusiasts?
Hispanics. I don’t know about the rest of the US, but in Indiana there is a distinct, nasty vibe of “Hell-at-least-the-blacks-speak-English”. It’s nothing official, but, really, considering the increase in Hispanic population in this country, how many characters on TV sitcoms and dramas are Hispanic?
Which civil rights are Hispanics denied by law?
I think a lot of people are misinterpreting the OP. It’s not about which group will gain in social prestige, but which group which is currently denied legal rights will get those rights.
Well, consider this: the Federal Bureau of Prisons shows that Hispanics make up 34.9% of US prison inmate population. The US Census Bureau indicates that 16.7% of the US’s population is Hispanic (as of 2011). When one-sixth of the population makes up over one-third of the prison population, that indicates to my little liberal 1960’s heart that there is discrimination going on, and that even though they may have legal rights, they are not being allowed to use them.
I don’t know about next. Probably transgender. Immigrants and the rights of people in general to migrate freely across the earth. Drug users and suppliers. I suspect prisoners and ex-criminals will be way down on the end of that list, but their time will come. And of course none of these are mutually exclusive, though they do tend to come into focus sequentially. But eventually…
Children. They are currently little more than their parents’ property. They can’t vote, work, drive, invest, enter into contracts, have sex, drink, gamble, nothing. The entire Bill of Rights is denied to people under 18.
They are provided with an education, but it’s mandatory so that’s a mixed blessing. Especially in places where the schools are more like Jesus Camp. Kids don’t even get to choose what school they go to or what they study.
There are some protections against abuse and neglect, but that’s it, and even dogs have those.
And in politics. I guess you could argue that that reflects the will of the people, but when the will of the people says that atheists aren’t trustworthy enough to make decisions for the country, I’d file that under a certain kind of discrimination.
Yep.
In the south it’s called a “crisis of faith” and can go on for years, while we still enjoy the networking found in “fellowship”, and pot-luck dinners.
I still hope Native Americans get a voice.