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1. 1. Personnel List | Center for Inquiry

   www.centerforinquiry.net/about - [Cached]

   Published on: 4/2/2008   Last Visited: 4/2/2008

   Gerry Dantone Director of Programs - CFI Long Island

2. 2. Long Island, NY Community - News | CFI Community News | Center for Inquiry

   www.centerforinquiry.net/li/ne - [Cached]

   Published on: 3/17/2008   Last Visited: 4/2/2008

   CFI Community of LI's Gerry Dantone on the Boy Scouts
   
   Newsday, March 17, 2008
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   Gerry Dantone, Greenlawn
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   Gerry Dantone
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   Gerry Dantone of the CFI Community of Long Island has authored a report that investigates a campaign being waged by Frank Russo Jr. and the American Family Association of New York against gay marriage, civil unions and adoption.
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   In a December 2006 email sent to Mr. Dantone, Newsday, David Kilmnick of Long Island Gay & Lesbian Youth, the NY Daily News, Cablevision and others, Mr. Russo argued that there were numerous studies supporting his belief that homosexuals were more likely to molest children than non-homosexuals and cited eight studies specifically in the email.
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   Another researcher cited by Mr. Russo, Dr. William Marshall, exclusively emailed Mr. Dantone, saying, "the paper that is cited in fact has nothing at all to do with the issue of gays so it is entirely an invented quote.
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   Gerry Dantone is a founder of Long Island Secular Humanists which has merged with the Center for Inquiry to become the CFI Community of Long Island for which he is now the coordinator. He is also the editor of the CFI Community of Long Island INQUIRER.
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   Some atheists, like Gerry Dantone of East Northport, have their own celebrations during this time of year.
   
   "We do celebrate the solstice," Dantone said.
   
   His house features a "solstice tree," and he and his wife gave their two children, ages 12 and 14, solstice gifts.
   
   Dantone also identifies himself as an agnostic and a humanist, a group that adheres to a nonreligious moral and ethical code.
   
   He said his organization, the Center for Inquiry, Long Island Community, held a winter celebration this year at the Plainview public library.
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   "The government should not be sponsoring religious prayer - any more than it should be sponsoring a day to oppose religious prayer," said Gerry Dantone of Huntington, coordinator of the Center for Inquiry on Long Island, a group also supporting the blood drive.
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   Gerry Dantone, Austin Dacey, and the Center for Inquiry - Long Island Community are formally issuing a challenge to the God Squad - Rabbi Marc Gellman and Father Tom Hartman - to debate the following: "Is God necessary for morality?"
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   GERRY DANTONE (coordinator, CFI-LI Community)
   
   'God bless America' signs in Long Island
   
   Gerry Dantone, CFI Community of Long Island Coordinator CNN, Paula Zahn Now, October 17, 2005:
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   Gerry Dantone, of Greenlawn, a broker at Metro Commercial and Business Brokers Inc. in Mineola and coordinator of the Center for Inquiry and the Council for Secular Humanism, Long Island:
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   Gerry Dantone, CFI Community of Long Island Coordinator New York Daily News, July 5, 2005
   
   Voice of the People section
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   Gerry Dantone, CFI Coordinator, parodies O'Reilly in Long Island's monthly magazine, the Improper. February 2005.

3. 3. Council for Secular Humanism

   www.secularhumanism.org/index. - [Cached]

   Published on: 1/13/2008   Last Visited: 1/13/2008

   Gerry Dantone, the energetic coordinator of the new CFI-Community, welcomed everyone by remarking that there were 4,004 churches, synagogues, temples, and mosques on Long Island, but until the CFI-Community was created there was no explicitly secular institution devoted to beliefs and values that did not depend upon religious faith!