Florida lawmakers consider requiring schools to post “In God we trust”

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Contending Florida’s school children need closer ties to the state’s foundations, a state House subcommittee on Tuesday unanimously backed a bill to require the posting of the words “In God We Trust” in a “conspicuous place” at all public schools. “It’s important for our students to realize the civic history of our state, and one portion of that history […]

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Trump will start the end of the world, claim evangelicals who support him

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Evangelical Christians overwhelmingly support President Donald Trump because they believe he’ll cause the world to end. Many have questioned why devout evangelicals support Trump, a man who has bragged about sexual assault, lies perpetually and once admitted he never asks God for forgiveness. Trump’s lack of knowledge of the Bible is also well-known. “Most evangelicals subscribe to a

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Atheists Support Abortion Rights More Than Any Other Group (Except One…)

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When it comes to supporting abortion rights — specifically saying that in most or all cases, abortion should be legal — how do the different religions rank? (And let’s include atheists in the mix.) 87% of both atheists and agnostics believe abortion should be legal in most or all cases. But Unitarian Universalists take the

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The religious activists on the rise inside Trump’s health department

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Critics fret some agency leaders are blurring the lines between church and state. A small cadre of politically prominent religious activists inside the Department of Health and Human Services have spent months quietly planning how to weaken federal protections for abortion and transgender care — a strategy that’s taking shape in a series of policy

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Mississippi Bill Would Force Teachers to Recite the Ten Commandments Every Day

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A Mississippi legislator, Credell Calhoun, has proposed a bill that would force teachers to recite the Ten Commandments at the beginning of every school day. The school board of each school district shall require the teachers in that school district to have the Ten Commandments recited aloud at the beginning of the first hour of class each

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A City Commissioner in Eustis (FL) Couldn’t Handle an Atheist’s Invocation

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Last year when atheist Joseph Richardson delivered an invocation at a meeting, one commissioner decided to give a second invocation… as if the first one didn’t count because it didn’t address the Christian God. This past Tuesday was the 232nd anniversary of the Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom, a day we’ve come to know as “Religious Freedom Day.” Penned by

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Mike Pence gas-lights gay people: I never supported conversion therapy

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Mike Pence says that he never supported conversion therapy, despite his apparent support for the practice in 2000. Earlier this week, gay Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon said that he was not happy with the White House picking Pence to lead the 2018 Winter Olympic delegation to South Korea. “You mean Mike Pence, the same Mike Pence that funded

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GOP lawmaker proposes one year in jail for anyone replicating South Dakota state seal without reference to God

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A South Dakota state representative will ask her colleagues to vote on a proposed law on Monday that will punish anyone replicating the state seal without its reference to God, and carries a possible fine and one year in jail. As reported at the Friendly Atheist, Rep. Sue Peterson (R-Sioux Falls) has submitted House Bill 1102

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