Sean Faircloth
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Sean Faircloth

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Sean Faircloth has three sons and lives in Bangor, Maine. This is his second book. He had the idea for the Maine Discovery Museum then led the multi-million dollar project to completion, sparking downtown revitalization in his home city. As an elected official, Faircloth spearheaded over thirty laws, most of which focused on improving the lives of children. Recently, as Mayor of Bangor, Maine, Faircloth initiated EnergySmart which makes home weatherization more affordable. Faircloth has also initiated a program to encourage immigrants to come to his city and to celebrate cultural diversity.

Sean Faircloth served five terms in the Maine Legislature on both the judiciary and appropriations committees. In his last term, he was elected Majority Whip by his caucus colleagues. Faircloth had the idea for the Maine Discovery Museum and led the four-year project from conception to completion in 2001. Of the twenty-five children's museums in New England, the Maine Discovery Museum was then the second-largest children's museum outside Boston.

An accomplished legislator, Faircloth successfully spearheaded over thirty laws, including the so-called deadbeat-dad child-support law that saved Maine taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars and became a model for federal law. Faircloth had numerous legislative successes in children's issues and justice-system reform.

Faircloth has spoken around the United States about the Constitution, secularism and law, children's policy, obesity policy, and sex-crime law. Faircloth chaired a commission on sex-crime-law reform that led to substantive improvement in that area of law. He chaired a commission on early childhood, as well as a commission regarding the citizen-initiative process.

Faircloth graduated from the University of Notre Dame and has a law degree from the University of California Hastings College of the Law. Faircloth served as a state assistant attorney general and as a lobbyist for the Maine State Bar Association. In 2009 Faircloth became executive director of the Secular Coalition for America, advocating for separation of church and state and for greater acceptance of nontheistic viewpoints in American life.

As executive director of Secular Coalition for America, Faircloth conceived of, drafted, and orchestrated the Secular Decade plan, and has worked with secular americans nationwide to continually improve this plan, which offers a specific strategy for returning America to its secular roots.

In 2011 Faircloth become Director of Strategy and Policy for the Richard Dawkins Foundation in the United States.
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