In 2008, Deanhardt wrote in a column in the Independent Mail:
"We are not willing to cede the moral high ground to the fundamentalists of the religious and political right who are using the language of faith, religion and politics to advance a narrow-minded, mean-spirited agenda, which is built on what we consider to be immoral values of intolerance, exclusion, division, discrimination and repression. ... Moral values grow out of our calling people to create a society in which every person is respected and valued."
MORE: http://www.independentmail.com/news/2012/dec/19/andersons-most-prayed-for-man-activist-atheist/