The Record: “‘Coming out’ as the first openly nontheist member of the United States Congress, Representative Fortney ‘Pete’ Stark (D-CA) quipped, “I’m pleased that I’m in Cambridge and not in Salem!’ On September 20, 2007, Congressman Stark spoke publicly for the first time about his atheism to an audience of approximately 300 members of the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard, the Harvard Law School Heathen Society, and various other atheist, agnostic, secular, humanist, and nonreligious groups.”