For one new student group, wearing a scarlet letter is a sign of pride.
The pins emblazoned with a scarlet "A" worn by members of the SUNY Cortland Secular Student Alliance aren't displayed in shame like the famous symbol in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Group members look at the bright red "A," which stands for atheist, as sign of their "coming out" as religious skeptics.
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