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Yesterday, Oklahoma State Rep. Sally Kern made news when she "we have a high percentage of blacks in prison" because they don’t want to work hard and "didn’t study hard because they said the government would take care of them.&quot…

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After calling on Congress to impeach Obama before an international military force tries to keep him in power, Alan Keyes is now urging Congress to conduct a forensic examination of President Obama’s long-form birth certificate. Keyes, an outspoke…

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Leadership at the American Humanist Association expressed frustration with comments made by Paul Vicalvi, executive director of National Association of Evangelicals Chaplain Commission, who brusquely dismissed the need for atheists and humanists serving as military chaplains, believing that humanists don’t qualify to serve as chaplains in the military and atheists are a “militant minority … specifically against evangelical Christianity.”

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Rachel Maddow, the popular MSNBC news anchor who is openly gay, caused a stir this week when she said that closeted gay anchors “have a responsibility to come out.” The statement renewed an old debate about whether coming out is a right or a responsibility. David Niose considers whether nonbelievers also have a responsibility to “come out”.

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It’s always a pleasure to find fellow church-state separationists who are as passionate about the First Amendment as we at Americans United are.

This week, two college students have taken the time to speak out against what they see as unconstitutional government mingling with religion.

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In our discussion of the science of morality commenters often assert that science may be able to describe why and how we are moral but it cannot make moral decisions for us. Or tell us what is right and wrong. Can it?

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America’s public school system and the constitutional separation of church and state are under relentless assault.

Yesterday the Indiana House voted 55-43 in favor of House Bill 1003, a measure that broadly funds religious and other private schools.  The bill now goes to Gov. Mitch Daniels’ desk, and he is certain to sign it. Daniels was a chief promoter of the package, and he clearly wants to force taxpayers to fund religious education. He is the founder and driving force behind The Oaks Academy, a “Christ-centered” private school in Indianapolis. Daniels sometimes poses as a moderate, but his education plan is anything but.

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Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association last called for all Muslim immigrants to the U.S. to convert to Christianity, and is now demanding that the U.S. lead a campaign to proselytize all Muslims around the world. According to Fischer, who has prayed for the destruction of mosques and dubbed Muslims a “toxic cancer” to American society, “tyranny is in the DNA of Islam” and the only way for democracy to emerge in a Muslim country is for the U.S. to bring about “a mass conversion of its people to biblical Christianity.”

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I sometimes think that moderate Christians are afraid to criticise their more extreme brethren. How many, for example, will openly criticise the large minority of Christians whe oppose evolutionary science? Yet an online petition of Australian Christians who oppose the conservative Australian Christian Lobby is gaining steam.

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Yesterday we posted an excerpt from Bryan Fischer’s column in which he hailed the pastor who helped Lisa Miller kidnap her daughter and flee the country as a modern day Rosa Parks.
Fischer also dedicated a good portion of the first hour of his radio pr…

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