Barney Frank: Why I didn’t talk about my atheism while serving in Congress

...Last year, Frank—a trailblazing politician who was the first member of Congress to come out as gay and the first to be in a same-sex marriage while in office—revealed his atheism in an interview with Bill Maher. The atheist and Humanist community has enthusiastically embraced him; earlier this year he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement in Cultural Humanism award by the Humanist Community at Harvard...

http://chrisstedman.religionnews.com/2014/06/06/barney-frank-didnt-talk-atheism-serving-congress/