Take the Challenge: Hold Your Representative Accountable
Last week, SCA released their 2011 Congressional Report Card, which rated members of the 112th U.S. Congress based on seven votes last year, about issues important to the secular community.…
Teaching About Religion in Public Schools: Let’s Do It Right
The claim that public schools are “religion-free” zones is a Religious Right myth that has no basis in reality. Public schools can (and do) teach about religion.…
Ahlquist’s Experience Highlights Need for Religion-Based Bullying Protections
Jessica Ahlquist -- the Rhode Island teenager who successfully fought her school for its unconstitutional prayer display -- has come under attack from multiple directions: fellow classmates, community members, and even a State Rep.…
Candidates and Religion: Voters Want Policy Plans, Not a Profession of Faith
According to the Southern Baptist Convention's research arm, most Americans, including most conservative Christians, don’t want to be beaten over the head with religious rants from politicians.…
Who is Funding the Climate Change Denial Groups?
Hot Topic exposes how some of the local climate change denier groups get finance. We need more of these sorts of investigations. Which brings to mind a petition . . .…
Pious Political Posturing Alert: U.S. House Set to Vote on Bills Promoting Religion
What’s on the agenda in the U.S. House of Representatives today? You guessed it: two bills promoting religion on government property.…
The Bishop’s Blunder: Let’s Keep Hitler Out of the ‘School Choice’ Debate
Harrisburg, PA Bishop Joseph McFadden, upset about failure of a school voucher program, compares public education advocates to Hitler, Mussolini.…
Global Warming: Our Fingerprints are All Over It!
Skeptical Science has just posted "A Comprehensive Review of the Causes of Global Warming". …
Ahlquist is Awesome! Standup Student in R.I. Stays Calm, Despite Vicious Attacks
It amazes me that so much hatred and anger lies just below the surface of many people, and that it takes so little to bring out vile words and actions.…
Action Alert: Indiana to Consider Lord’s Prayer for Schools
Never mind decades of jurisprudence declaring it unconstitutional . . . Indiana lawmakers want to pass a law allowing public schools to require recitation of the Lord's Prayer daily. Do their reasons for the legislation suit their solution? …
Scare-o-lina: Gingrich Projected Winner
Based on exit polls, and with only 3% of precincts reporting, ABC has projected Newt Gingrich the winner of the South Carolina Republican primary. Doubtless this success was due to Vermin Supreme not making the South Carolina ballot.…
. . . And Then There Were Four
Rick Perry has suspended his Presidential campaign and endorsed Newt Gingrich. This leaves Romney, Gingrich, Santorum, and Paul.…
Doubting Thomas: Prayer Breakfast Theocrats Try to Baptize Jefferson
A letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to express his disagreement with the theology of ultra-conservative Christians has been mutilated and pressed into service by ultra-conservative Christians to promote their theocratic agenda.…
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