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Atheist Group Will Honor Slain Bangladeshi Activist With New Award

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It was three years ago today when Dr. Avijit Roy, a Bangladeshi atheist activist and prolific writer, was slaughtered outside a book fair in Dhaka by Islamic radicals unable to deal with his alleged blasphemy. His wife, Rafida Bonya Ahmed, was also a target of the terrorists, but she survived the attack. She’s been speaking out against the Bangladeshi government’s inaction ever since. (In […]

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Civil Rights Groups Urge Against Government Honors for Rev. Billy Graham

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On Thursday, February 22, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that the remains of evangelical pastor Rev. Billy Graham would lie in honor in the United States Capitol Rotunda on February 28 and March 1. Graham would be just the fourth private citizen to be so honored, after

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Battle over religion in public schools waged in one of America’s fastest-growing cities

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Public school officials in one of the nation’s fastest-growing cities are being accused of violating the separation of church and state. The controversy has been simmering in this once-tiny cotton-farming community, about 30 miles north of Dallas, since last summer when Rick McDaniel, superintendent of the McKinney Independent School District, prayed at a pulpit adorned with

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Government-Funded Foster Care Agency Cuts Ties with Anti-LGBTQ Bible Camp

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A government-funded social services agency, which happens to hold many of its foster parent training seminars in churches, recently agreed to participate in a retreat at an anti-LGBTQ Bible camp, withdrawing only after a foster family voiced complaints about the partnership. Iowa-based Four Oaks, which will get up to $7 million from state and federal governments

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Sebastian Gorka: Trump’s Election Is Proof That God Exists

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Former White House adviser Sebastian Gorka spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference this morning, where he declared that Donald Trump’s election is proof that God exists. Declaring that conservatives and Republicans must mobilize to vote in the 2018 midterm elections in order to prevent Democrats from gaining control of Congress, Gorka said that if

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Ireland Tells State-Run Schools: Stop Steering Pupils to Religion Class

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Ireland’s state-run secondary schools can no longer assume that their students will receive religious instruction, the government has said, directing the schools to offer alternative classes — a striking move in a country where education has long been dominated by the Roman Catholic Church. Irish law already states that government-run schools cannot require students to

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‘Christian symbolism’ taken out of Kenosha classroom after Atheist father gets lawyers involved

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An Atheist father is fuming over what he called ‘Christian symbolism’ in his 4th grade son’s public school at Roosevelt Elementary in Kenosha. While the district will not comment on camera, opinions on this differ, depending on which parent you ask. Moore gave us pictures of what was taken down in his son’s classroom which

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A Middle School Basketball Coach Shouldn’t Brag About Team Prayers on Twitter

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If you’re a middle school basketball coach, you shouldn’t be praying with your students before a game. That’s coercive and illegal. And if you take a picture of that prayer, you shouldn’t put it up on social media like Eric Stafford did with his team at Dillard Drive Middle School in Raleigh, North Carolina. If you break the law

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Administration Pushes Abstinence Promotion

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Recent administrative actions signal a shift from promoting comprehensive sexual health information to abstinence-only education, which concerns reproductive rights advocates who question abstinence promotion’s efficacy at preventing teen pregnancy. The administration already announced last year the discontinuation of a teen pregnancy prevention, or TPP, program that funded grants to communities that study ways to prevent

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