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Texas Doctor Sued for Forcing Employees to Attend Bible Study

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Four former employees are suing a Texas doctor, claiming he forced them to practice his religion in the workplace. Hemant Mehta at the Friendly Athiest reports: “The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is filing the suit on the employees’ behalf against Dr. Tim Shepherd. The suit says Shepherd ‘held daily mandatory meetings which all employees were required to …

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Louisiana Attorney General: “We Will Get Prayer Back in Public Schools”

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Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry recently gave a speech to the Lousiana Family Forum, a religious right advocacy group. In his speech, he vowed that he would get prayer back into public schools: The Times-Picayune reports: Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry is vowing to fight for prayer in public schools, telling a friendly audience of several hundred …

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Lawmakers look to secure FEMA funding to build churches

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A bill introduced in the Senate this week (S.1823) would amend the Stafford Act to allow churches and other houses of worship to receive grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for the repair, restoration, and replacement of damaged facilities. The Senate bill, introduced by Senators Blunt (R-MO), Cornyn (R-TX), Lankford (R-OK), and Cruz …

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Proposed New Mexico science standards omit evolution, climate change

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New Mexico’s Public Education Department has moved to adopt the Next Generation Science Standards, which is a curriculum developed by a consortium of 26 states and by the National Science Teachers Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the National Research Council. However, New Mexico’s proposed standards contain very specific ommissions of crucial facts pertaining to evolution, rising …

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House votes to block DC reproductive health law

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Last Thursday, the House voted to prevent D.C. from receiving funding to implement a local law making it illegal for employers to discriminate against workers based on reproductive health decisions. The law they targeted is the Reproductive Health Non-Discrimination Amendment Act which broadens the definition of discrimination in the to include an employee’s reproductive health choices. …

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House votes to repeal D.C.’s Death With Dignity law; Senate has yet to act

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On Thursday, September 14, the House of Representatives voted to pass a “megabus” appropriations bill. Hidden inside this bill was a provision that would effectively repeal Washington DC’s aid-in-dying law. In 2016, the Secular Coalition for America lobbied alongside Compassion and Choices to the secure the passage of the DC Death with Dignity. The bill, …

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Poll finds most Americans oppose religiously-based discrimination

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A new poll by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) finds that, on a wide range of issues, a majority of Americans oppose religiously-based discrimination against LGBTQ persons. Some findings from the new survey include: A majority (53%) of Americans oppose allowing businesses that provide wedding services, such as catering, flowers, and wedding cakes, to …

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Catholic Rules Forced This Doctor to Watch Her Patient Sicken—Now, She’s Speaking Out

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Catholic hospitals force doctors to impose religious edicts onto patients, violating their rights and needlessly jeopardizing their health. “A combination of factors are now giving Catholic hospitals unprecedented power over U.S. health care. Recent decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court and President Donald Trump are poised to hand Catholic hospitals almost unfettered leeway to impose …

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The CIA Is Becoming More White, Male, and Christian, and That’s Bad for America

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CIA employees are blowing the whistle about proselytizing inside the agency. One of the complaints describes the problem as something “straight out of The Handmaid’s Tale.” According to sources, the problem stems the Trump appointed CIA Director Mike Pompeo: Pompeo, an evangelical Christian, has said previously that Islamist terrorists will “continue to press against us until we …

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Arkansas Church Uses New Law To Exert “Spiritual Influence” in Schools

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In August, Arkansas lawmakers passed a bill requiring all public schools to display a framed picture or poster of “In God We Trust” above an American flag in their classrooms. Ostensibly, the law’s purpose is to promote patriotism but, if that was the case, why not use our nation’s original, secular motto E Pluribus Unum (“Out …

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