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Mississippi lawmakers considers a ban on most abortions after 15 weeks

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State lawmakers are considering a bill that would make this state’s abortion laws among the most restrictive in the nation. “We’ve seen a little over 200 women this past year that fell in that range,” Brewer explained. So, that’s 200 women that it would’ve affected.” Bill sponsor Representative Andy Gipson and other supporters argued the bill …

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State Lawmakers Introduce New Faith Adoption Legislation

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State lawmakers approved an adoption bill to overhaul the state’s system. But now they will consider another bill, Senate Bill 375, that would let adoption agencies that receive state funding deny services based on “sincerely held religious beliefs.” Last year, Georgia’s adoption bill failed in the Senate due to a provision that let adoption agencies that got state …

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NM Candidate: Opponents of Our Ten Commandments Display Want a “Secular Utopia”

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Hobbs, New Mexico is one of those cities that has a Ten Commandments monument outside the local courthouse. It’s been up there for decades. A couple of weeks ago, when an atheist activist spoke at a city council meeting about why it needed to be removed, he was essentially mocked by the elected officials. One of …

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What’s behind America’s promotion of religious liberty abroad

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On Jan. 24, the Senate confirmed Sam Brownback, the governor of Kansas – a Methodist, who converted to Catholicism and today attends an evangelical church – for the position of ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom. On Jan. 30, President Donald Trump touted in his State of the Union address the “historic actions to protect religious liberty” as a major …

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Atheists and Christians Joined Forces to Help the Homeless in Texas

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Demolishing the fundamentalist myth that atheists have no morals, the Southeast Texas Atheists Helping the Homeless chapter worked with a church in Beaumont, Texas — on a Sunday, no less — to pass out necessities to the homeless. Volunteers from Northpoint Community Church and Southeast Texas Atheists Helping the Homeless gathered near Weiss Park to give items to …

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Record number of scientists running for office in 2018

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At least 200 individuals with backgrounds in science, math, engineering and technology have launched bids for state House seats across the country, according to HuffPost. The PAC 314 Action told the outlet that the candidates were running in elections for 7,000 state legislature seats. “The sheer number is really astonishing,” the group’s founder, Shaughnessy Naughton, told the outlet. The …

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Nontheist Organizations Band Together — A Match Made in Heaven

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Washington, DC — Today the Secular Coalition for America and the United Coalition of Reason (UnitedCoR) announced a bold new partnership to engage nontheistic communities across the country and begin mobilizing the one-quarter of Americans with no religious affiliation into a unified voting bloc. To better facilitate cooperation between the two organizations, the Secular Coalition …

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‘Serious leadership’ not a ‘pandering hairdo’: Secular group schools Eric Trump on founding principles of America

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The Freedom from Religion Foundation is trolling Eric Trump after the president’s son made an appearance on “Fox & Friends” Wednesday demanding people clap for his father. “I mean, [congressional Democrats] didn’t stand for anything,” Trump whined. “When he said ‘In God We Trust’ — when my father mentioned ‘In God We Trust,’ the guiding principle of …

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We Didn’t Need God’s Help to Feed Homeless People in Southern California

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Several weeks ago the Santa Clarita Atheists and Freethinkers signed up to provide and serve dinner to the homeless in Santa Clarita, California, last Sunday they completed this task. We were told that we must be prepared to feed between 60 and 100 people. If the night was extra cold, more people would show up …

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