Education Secretary Betsy DeVos toured two New York City schools on Tuesday and Wednesday, but the city’s public schools, with their 1.1 million students, were not among them. Instead, Ms. DeVos visited two Orthodox Jewish schools, and offered her strongest comments to date in support of public funding for religious schools in a meeting with …
DeVos Visits New York Schools, but Not Ones Run by the City Read More »
Eight years ago, Amanda MacLean enrolled for a singing course at Santiago Canyon College, a community college where she worked in Orange, Calif. All students were required to sing together as a choir. She was surprised when she found that the mandatory sessions not only included hymns but performances at religious events. After singing at …
Godless choir mixes fellowship with a full-throated defense of atheism Read More »
Remember earlier today when I posted about how Creationist Cynthia Dunbar was on the verge of winning the Republican nomination for a U.S. House seat from Virginia’s 6th District? You can breathe out now. It looks like that’s not going to happen. Remember that this wasn’t a regular primary election. The GOP changed the rules to help her out. They opted for …
Creationist Cynthia Dunbar Fails to Win GOP Nomination for U.S. House Seat Read More »
A few years ago, Cynthia Dunbar played a central role in the great Texas textbook controversies, moving to inject creationism into the curricula and eliminate Thomas Jefferson from American history — all while blasting public schools as “tyrannical” and calling for making the judicial branch “subordinate” to Congress. Now, she’s gunning for the Republican nomination for …
The Virginia GOP wants to get this creationist elected to Congress Read More »
Even some of the most powerful tech companies start out tiny, with a young innovator daydreaming about creating the next big thing. As today’s tech firms receive increased moral scrutiny, it raises a question about tomorrow’s: Is that young person thinking about the tremendous ethical responsibility they’d be taking on if their dream comes true? …
MIT Now Has a Humanist Chaplain to Help Students With the Ethics of Tech Read More »
Mauritania has long been one of the worst countries in the world for freethinkers. Those guilty of “blasphemy” have been threatened with the death penalty, which is disturbing on its own but even more so when you realize how blasphemy is always in the eye of the beholder. But now that punishment will become mandatory. The International Humanist and …
Mauritania Passes Law Mandating Death Penalty for “Blasphemy” Read More »
Clinics that provide abortions or refer patients to places that do would lose federal funding under a new Trump administration rule that takes direct aim at Planned Parenthood, according to three administration officials. The rule, which is to be announced Friday, is a top priority of social conservatives and is the latest move by President …
Trump Administration to Tie Health Facilities’ Funding to Abortion Restrictions Read More »
A large white cross that’s been in Jackson County for nearly 70 years has been taken down after a complaint over the religious symbol standing on state-owned land. The Michigan Association of Civil Rights Activists asked the state Department of Natural Resources to remove the Grass Lake Ministerial Association’s cross in March after a resident …
Michigan cross removed from state land after complaint Read More »
Every year, the Freedom From Religion Foundation gets complaints about graduations in public schools. Preachers delivering sermons, staff and students scheduled to deliver prayers, the graduation being held in a church — you name the violation, we’ve seen it. None of these is an issue for a commencement ceremony at a private religious college, such …
Probing Pence: Did his Hillsdale College commencement speech get anything right? Read More »
There are lawsuits pending or likely in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Michigan, and against the Department of Health and Human Services, over discriminatory LGBT adoption laws. On May 11, Oklahoma became the eighth state to allow state-licensed child welfare agencies to cite religious beliefs in order to discriminate against LGBTpeople looking to foster or adopt children. The Sooner State won’t …
Inside the Fight Against America’s Wave of Anti-LGBT Adoption Bills Read More »
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