Atheists Call for Bethel (CT) to End Religious Favoritism in Holiday Displays

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Last October, a resident of Bethel, Connecticut contacted American Atheists because of a local church/state separation problem. There was going to be a Nativity scene outside the town’s municipal building, and the resident wanted to counter it with a display of his own. AA asked the city for instructions on the resident’s behalf. […] So …

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Texas Will Keep Teaching Kids That Moses Influenced the Founding of America

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The Texas Board of Education has decided to keep the biblical character of Moses in the part of the social studies curriculum that discusses historical figures important to the founding of the United States. We reported in September on the board’s preliminary vote, which recommended keeping Moses and removing Hillary Clinton from the overall curriculum. Ultimately, the board decided to …

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Wentzville (MO) Settles Case With Atheist Who Criticized “In God We Trust” Sign

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Back in February, atheist activist Sally Hunt attended a meeting of the Board of Aldermen in Wentzville, Missouri to criticize the “In God We Trust” sign they had in giant letters in their meeting room. You can hear her speech in that video. It’s direct, but it’s calm. Hunt explained the history of the phrase, why …

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Politicians, Take Note: Secular Voters Are a Powerful, and Growing, Part of the Population

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U.S. voters hit two important milestones in the 2018 midterm. First, Protestants were not the majority of the electorate, according to Religion News Service. Second, as white evangelical Christians, who carried Trump into office on a wave of Christian nationalism, are barely maintaining their share in the electorate, nonreligious people are gaining. “Nones”—those who self-identify …

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Here’s why the Arlene’s Flowers case is back in the state Supreme Court’s hands

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The Arlene’s Flowers case is back before the state Supreme Court, nearly two years after justices unanimously ruled that the Richland flower shop’s owner broke the law when she refused to design arrangements for a same-sex wedding. The state’s high court is taking another look at the case in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s …

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Blasphemy Laws: An Excuse for Persecution

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Sacrilege is painful to religious believers everywhere. But broad and subjective legal proscriptions not only contradict the fundamental right to freedom of expression; they also open the door to persecution of minority faiths, as in Ms. Bibi’s case, or of political dissidents. In Russia, the Pussy Riot band was imprisoned for “hooliganism motivated by religious …

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This Christian Ministry’s Contract With a Public School District is Ridiculous

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For years now, we’ve posted about the Todd Becker Foundation. It’s a Christian ministry that works its way into public schools under the guise of teaching kids to make smart decisions… only to evangelize to them after those assemblies. Sometimes they do that during the school day. Other times, they offer a secular speech, then encourage students to attend a …

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The Trump administration’s anti-birth control agenda, explained

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One day after the midterm elections, the Trump administration released final rules allowing employers to opt out of providing health insurance that covers birth control. The administration has been chipping away at the contraceptive mandate in the Affordable Care Act, which requires most employers to offer insurance that covers birth control, for more than a …

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Oklahoma Just Elected an Anti-Vaxxer as its Governor

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Kevin Stitt, a Republican businessman just elected as Oklahoma’s 28th governor, is an anti-vaxxer who doesn’t understand how herd immunity works. The Daily Beast pointed out months ago that Stitt has expressed irrational skepticism toward childhood vaccinations. At an appearance before a conservative political forum this past February, Tulsa businessman Kevin Stitt said he personally did not vaccinate …

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