Dan Barker has written a song in her honor to begin this tribute:
MODERN MAJOR ACTIVIST (Sung to Gilbert & Sullivan's "Modern Major General")
Anne is the very model of a Modern Major Activist. She studies every issue and she gathers every fact of it. She has a thorough expertise in all things institutional. She even knows precisely what is meant by Constitutional.
In dealing with the public she's a true encyclopedia. She understands exactly how to give it to the media. In short, in all things feminist and humanist and atheist, She is the very model of a Modern Major Activist.
Respecting human values, she's a tender-hearted atheist, An "action-over-prayer" and a "reason-over-faith"-eist. She never wilts from laboring to keep the country secular. And all her major victories are really quite spec-tec-ular.
Although a gentle woman, she can protest energetically. She handles all apologists quite unapologetically. She's not afraid to say a politician is a criminal. She's practically rewritten every lyric in the hym-i-nal.
A battle-tested feminist, she's plucky and adventury, And just like Margaret Sanger, she's a "Woman of the Century." And so, in all things feminist and humanist and atheist, She is the very model of a Modern Major Activist.
(lyrics 2004 by Dan Barker)
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