Politician comes out as atheist to reduce stigma against nonbelievers

“There has been a lot of highly visible discrimination against minority faiths and nonbelievers in this state recently. When the Phoenix City Council held an emergency meeting to discuss whether it would allow the nontheistic Satanic Temple to offer an invocation, I heard a lot of inflammatory things said about secular Arizonans. There’s too much animosity against my community for me to be silent any longer.”
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/accordingtomatthew/2016/02/politician-comes-out-as-atheist-to-reduce-stigma-towards-nonbelievers/