Today, the House will consider a radical anti-choice bill that bans abortion after 20 weeks. The “Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act” makes it a crime—punished with a fine or prison, or both—to perform an abortion when the fetus is believed to be 20 weeks or older. However, as with so many anti-choice laws, the “Pain-Capable Unborn […]
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A federal judge has ruled that officials in Brevard County, Florida cannot discriminate against nontheists by denying them the opportunity to offer a secular invocation. The county had previously limited invocations to “faith-based” groups and insisted that the Central Florida Freethought Community could only speak during the “public comments” portion of the day. In a victory
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A star student is suing her former high school over discrimination she faced for being an atheist and standing up against unconstitutional proselytizing by school officials. Just a few examples of discrimination and religious coercion Cidney Fisk claims to have experienced include: “Teachers at the school openly discussed their Christian faith and church attendance “during classes.”
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The heartbreaking story of a Michigan couple who didn’t seek medical care for their infant born with a serious but treatable condition. While reading this story, keep in mind that nine states still have faith healing exemptions from manslaughter and child abuse laws. Read the full story at the Friendly Atheist blog.
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A groundbreaking study of over 100,000 Americans from all 50 states finds that nearly one-quarter (24%) of all Americans have no religious affiliation. This new report published by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) is the second study that has recorded such a high percentage of Americans with no religious affiliation. While the overall picture
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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 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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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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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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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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