This week the Movement Advancement Project launched an ad campaign with a video that shows a widow being denied a funeral service for her deceased wife. I wish this were a purely hypothetical example of the dangers of so-called religious exemption laws and policies, but it was all too real for Jack Zawadski. Jack and his late […]
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The Alabama state Senate on Tuesday voted to approve a bill that would allow the Ten Commandments to be displayed on public property. The proposed constitutional amendment — which the Senate approved by a 23-3 margin — will now go to the state’s House of Representatives, the Associated Press reported. The bill would have to be approved by
After a federal judge said Humanism doesn’t count as a “religion” when it comes to a non-religious federal prisoner who just wanted the same perks and privileges offered to his religious colleagues, the American Humanist Association is filing an appeal. And they have support from two other major groups promoting church/state separation. This case was originally
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Couples – gay or straight — looking for a marriage license in Pike County, Ala. won’t get one from local probate judge Wes Allen. “We have not issued any marriage licenses since Feb. 9, 2015,” Allen says. That’s when a federal judge struck down Alabama’s ban on same-sex marriage. The state’s then-Chief Justice Roy Moore
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Vice President Pence predicted Tuesday that legal abortion would end in the U.S. “in our time.” “I know in my heart of hearts this will be the generation that restores life in America,” Pence said at a luncheon in Nashville, Tenn., hosted by the Susan B. Anthony List & Life Institute, an anti-abortion organization. “If
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Congressional leadership announced last week that it would commemorate the life of evangelist Billy Graham by having him lie in honor this Wednesday, a rare accolade for any American and an official embrace of the religious leader from the halls of government. Graham will be only the fourth private citizen to lie in honor, following civil rights
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It was three years ago today when Dr. Avijit Roy, a Bangladeshi atheist activist and prolific writer, was slaughtered outside a book fair in Dhaka by Islamic radicals unable to deal with his alleged blasphemy. His wife, Rafida Bonya Ahmed, was also a target of the terrorists, but she survived the attack. She’s been speaking out against the Bangladeshi government’s inaction ever since. (In
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On Thursday, February 22, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that the remains of evangelical pastor Rev. Billy Graham would lie in honor in the United States Capitol Rotunda on February 28 and March 1. Graham would be just the fourth private citizen to be so honored, after
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Public school officials in one of the nation’s fastest-growing cities are being accused of violating the separation of church and state. The controversy has been simmering in this once-tiny cotton-farming community, about 30 miles north of Dallas, since last summer when Rick McDaniel, superintendent of the McKinney Independent School District, prayed at a pulpit adorned with
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A government-funded social services agency, which happens to hold many of its foster parent training seminars in churches, recently agreed to participate in a retreat at an anti-LGBTQ Bible camp, withdrawing only after a foster family voiced complaints about the partnership. Iowa-based Four Oaks, which will get up to $7 million from state and federal governments
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