Anne here…. It just doesn’t stop. The stupidity rife through the ranks of our elected officials, I mean. Despite the fact that nonreligious make up as much as a third of our young people, and the fact that the numbers of the nonreligious are growing, Congress just can’t get its collective head out of its [...]
House Resolution to Open School Board Meetings with Prayers
June 7, 2013 By 5 Comments
Anne here… (Just like JT, I’m making up for a dearth of postings over the last few weeks.) On Thursday, June 6, Rep. Tim Walberg of Michigan introduced House Resolution 250. The resolution declares Congress’s support for opening local school board meetings with prayer. The proposed resolution states that the United States was founded on the [...]
Tennessee Hates Muslims. Who Knew?
June 7, 2013 By 19 Comments
Anne here, with another item from the Hatewatch Headlines of the Southern Poverty Law Center…. Tennessee has been a hotbed of anti-Muslim activism for years, especially after plans were laid to build an Islamic center in Murfreesboro. There have been bomb threats and numerous conferences centered on the unfounded but widely hyped fear that Shariah [...]
Study Debunks Claim that Kids of Same-Sex Parents Do Less Well
June 7, 2013 By 3 Comments
Anne here… The Southern Poverty Law Center alerts us to a new study out of Australia about children growing up in households led by same-sex parents: In the latest blow to anti-gay forces, a major study conducted at the University of Melbourne in Australia has found that children of same-sex parents do as well or [...]
‘The Devil’s After Our Children’
June 7, 2013 By 2 Comments
…or so says Pickens County, South Carolina. Anne here, with FFRF’s news release dated yesterday explaining just what it’s going to do with that particular devilish little problem. FFRF Calls Out Pickens County Schools’ Multiple Religious Offenses News Release: June 6, 2013 The Freedom From Religion Foundation is placing the blame for a string of [...]
Anne at the American Humanist Association Conference
May 30, 2013 By 1 Comment
Anne here … I’m at the American Humanist Association’s annual conference in San Diego today and through the weekend. Tomorrow is the United Coalition of Reason’s track on activism. I’ll be live-tweeting for anyone who is interested. Follow me @aramink or look for #ahacon13.
US Supreme Court Deals Blow to Defunders of Planned Parenthood
May 28, 2013 By 5 Comments
Anne here… No, that headline does not contain a typo. Planned Parenthood and its defenders have been warding off legislative blows in lawsuits all over the country in the last several years, and things have been especially nasty in the last couple of years. In 2011 Indiana passed a law preventing any Medicaid funds from going [...]
Classroom Proselytising: It’s Not Just for Kids Anymore
May 23, 2013 By 7 Comments
Anne here… Ball State University is a publicly funded institution of higher learning in Muncie, Indiana. A possible violation of the separation of church and state has raised the eyebrows of students in a certain science class, “The Boundaries of Science,” taught by physics and astronomy professor Eric Hedin. The course fulfills a science requirement [...]
Pseudoscience, Eugenie Scott, NCSE, and the Journal Nature
May 19, 2013 By 18 Comments
Anne here … The eminent science journal Nature devoted its May 15, 2013, editorial to applauding the work of the National Center for Science Education and its retiring director, Eugenie Scott. Critics of mainstream science frequently dispute evolution or climate change. Whatever their target, a common tactic is to challenge how well mainstream scientists accept these [...]
Gage Pulliam: Oklahoma’s Defender of Separation of Church and State
May 19, 2013 By 1 Comment
Anne here … The Freedom From Religion Foundation does more than write letters and file lawsuits. Last Monday the Muldrow, Oklahoma public schools confirmed that it has permanently removed Ten Commandment plaques from all of its classrooms. Theocratic parents, of course, complain that after allowing the signs to stay up for twenty years, taking them [...]
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