Dear Richard, I am a great admirer of the eloquent yet simple advice you give on Friendly Atheist. I have been “out” as an atheist for about one year now. I work in a Divinity Faculty, where I am surrounded by liberal, thoughtful, sophisticated religious believers, and recently I have been having thoughts about becoming [...]
High Schooler Gets in Trouble After Not Standing for the Pledge of Allegiance
November 17, 2009 By 84 Comments
Inspired by 10-year-old Will Phillips‘ refusal to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance, a slightly-older commenter said this: I am a High School student in Alaska. For years, I have stood up, but not recited the pledge. My reasons being some quite similar to Will Phillips’. When asked why I don’t recite the pledge, I [...]
Will Phillips Interviewed on CNN
November 16, 2009 By 20 Comments
Will Phillips — the 10-year-old boy who won’t stand up for the Pledge of Allegiance because there is no “justice for all” for the GLBT community and so many others — was interviewed on CNN today. What an awesome kid. His parents are just setting the bar high for the rest of us who want [...]
I’m (Not) With Stupid
November 16, 2009 By 25 Comments
Recently, Fred Phelps and the other nuts at Westboro Baptist Church protested near a midwest high school for no good reason (other than, perhaps, the existence of liberal faculty members…?). I’ve blurred out the school’s identifying information in the pic below, but you can see that several of the high school students staged a counter [...]
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