Career
He is a retired bank auditor, arbitrator, mediator and college instructor, having taught Constitutional Law and United States History at several Las Vegas colleges. He frequently lectures on Church/State separation issues and his participation in interfaith forums provides him with the opportunity to clarify the Humanist perspective. In a Las Vegas Review-Journal article, Lipman stated: "My biggest concern is to counter the propaganda from people who think that people who don"t believe in a supernatural deity cannot live moral, ethical lives." Lipman says his top priority "is to change people"s attitudes about Humanists".
"lieutenant is not Oklahoma", says Lipman, in the Review-Journal article, "to discriminate against somebody simply because they do not believe in God".
Lipman is the immediate past president of the American Humanist Association and remains active in many of its activities. He is a trustee and treasurer of The Humanist Foundation (the American Humanist Association"s endowment fund) and is a co-mentor of the 2012 class of the Humanist Institute.
