Edd Doerr
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Doerr, Edd (21 December 1930 - )
Doerr, a signer of Humanist Manifesto II, was elected in 1995 as President of the American Humanist Association (AHA). For The Humanist, he has written on matters concerning church and state and is on the editorial board.
Since 1982, Doerr is executive director of Americans for Religious Liberty [[1]]. He has been an editor of The American Rationalist, and is on the editorial board not only of The Humanist but also of The Truth Seeker, a magazine for freethinkers.
From 1970—1982 he served as editor of Church and State. He is author of numerous books, including Religious Liberty in Crisis (1988), In Catholic Schools: The Facts (1993); and The Case Against School Vouchers (1996), in the latter of which he wrote against educational voucher plans, saying Catholic schools are sectarian institutions with discriminatory hiring and admissions policies.
Doerr addressed the Tenth International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) World Congress held in Buffalo (1988). Since 1981, he has been editor of Voice of Reason.
Speaking fluently in Spanish, Doerr participated in the 1996 Humanist World Congress in Mexico City.
Selected Books
- The Conspiracy That Failed (1968)
- Eden II (1974, fiction)
- Prochiaid and the Law (1975)
- Dear Editor (1988)
- A Hitch in Time and Other Tales (1988, fiction)
- Religious Libety in Crisis (1988)
- Abortion Rights and Fetal 'Personhood' (1989, 1990, with James W. Prescott)
- Images (1991, poetry)
- Church Schools and Public Money: The Politics of Parochiaid (1991, with Albert J. Menendez)
- Religion and Public Education: Common Sense and the Law (1991, with Albert J. Menendez)
- Dancing on the Wall (1993, poetry)
- Catholic Schools: The Facts (1993, 2000)
- Religious Liberty and the State Constitutions (1993, with Albert J. Menendez)
- The Case Against School Vouchers (1995, with Albert J. Menendez and John M. Swomley)
- Timely and Timeless: The Wisdom of E. Burdette Backus (1998, editor) [2]
- Vox Populi: Letters to the Editor (1999)
- Cómo Mantener la Cordura en un Mundo Loco (2000, Spanish translation of Sherwin Wine's Staying Sane in a Crazy World by Herenia and Edd Doerr)
- Six Stories and Seventy Poems (2001)
- The Case Against Charitable Choice (2001, with Albert J. Menendez)
- Great Quotations on Religious Freedom (1991, 2002, with Albert J. Mendendez)
- Min liv som Humanist, A Memoir (My Life as a Humanist, 2004)
- - includes a bibliography of Doerr's chapters in books and major addresses he gave
- Somebody Has to Say It (2004)
- Here I Stand (2006)
Some of the books are available from Rocinante Press, Box 6656, Silver Spring, Maryland 20916
Correspondence
Doerr in the 1950s wrote book reviews for the book review editor of The Humanist:
