So – a new group, for atheists who also want to pursue additional progressive goals. What’s all the fuss? For instance, If a group of atheists wanted to form a group to support religious freedom in the boy scouts, nobody else would be whining about that. If you support their goals, join, if you don’t then don’t join. If a group wanted to form an atheist knitters club, I doubt anybody would raise a fuss either.

So what’s the big deal here? Some of us feel that, as atheists, we should be using skepticism on wider issues, not just the ones skeptics have traditionally tackled. And we’d like to have a safe space to talk about these issues in, where we are not constantly dealing with actual sexual harassment, or people constantly explaining why sexual harassament isn’t actually a problem. So we have a moderated forum, where we can safely discuss our goals:

Atheists plus we care about social justice.
Atheists plus we support women’s rights.
Atheists plus we protest racism.
Atheists plus we fight homophobia and transphobia.
Atheists plus we use critical thinking and skepticism.

If this matches your goals, and you feel like joining, then do. If you don’t then don’t join. I really don’t understand why anybody has such objections to a new interest group forming within our community.

I see A+ as being a subset of atheists who reject certain traditional male/female roles, making it OK for people to perform to their potential. It is also a work in progress, with nothing set in stone. To eliminate all forms of irrational behaviour from a group would end up with a group the same size as a group of all the people living up to the teachings of the imaginary jesus.