Tim Gorski

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Gorski, Tim (day/month/year - )

Gorski is the son of (parents with occupations - siblings can be included)

He was educated at . . . .

In 1994 he helped found the North Texas Church of Freethought (NTCOF), of which he remains the Pastoral Director.

The Houston Church of Freethought, an affiliate of the NTCOF, subsequently appeared in that Texas city.

• Secular humanists do not deny that religious beliefs play a role in people’s lives,” Gorski has written. “Yet it was the insight of the Founding Fathers, who represented all points on the religious spectrum, that the government of a civil society ought to be neutral and aloof on religious matters, as the First Amendment mandates.

Gorski is a supporter of the Internet Infidels and a past representative of the Metroplex Atheists and board member of the Atheist Alliance International. {The New York Times, 9 March 1996}

Gorski, also writes under the name of Timotheus. He edited The Freethought Observer and The Freethought Exchange until they ceased publication.

Dr. Gorski, a physician, has also been active in exposing the facts about medical quackery. His “Alternative Medicine Looks a Lot Like Religion” in Secular Nation (April-June 1998) details the problems with homeopathy and acupuncture, and he has written extensively elsewhere on the dangers and irrationalism of such "alternative medicine."

On the day before the 9/11 attacks he testified before the US Senate on the subject of medical fraud.

Gorski is President of the Dallas/Fort Worth Area Council Against Health Fraud and a board member of the National Council Against Health Fraud.

Dr. Gorski lives in the (Houston? area with . . . .