The Public Religion Research Institute just released a survey (PDF) that asked people about their views on abortion and same-sex marriage (among other things). The results indicate some good news! When it comes to same-sex marriage, more than half of all people (57%) ages 18-29 support it. The numbers go down as the demographics get older. What does that mean? Despite all the obstacles Christians and Mormons want to put in the path to civil rights, the trend is not… Read more
I’m not playing this old clip from The Atheist Experience because the caller is unbelievably misinformed about atheists. I’m not playing it because the hosts, Jeff Dee and Russell Glasser, do a nice job of responding to her ignorance. I’m playing it because the funniest part of the clip is how the host on the right pushes the “mute” button when he wants to correct the caller. I love that button! Why don’t all the cable news shows make something… Read more
It looks like Ken Ham read the writeup about the home-schooling convention. Surprise, surprise, he’s not happy. As I was checking out links on the internet yesterday (I receive “alerts” when the name of Answers in Genesis pops up on websites), I came across a scathing report of the recent presentations I gave at the Homeschool Convention in Naperville, Illinois. However, then I realized the report was written by an atheist who attended the lectures. Therefore, such mocking, scathing comments… Read more
I love high school students who are smarter than their administrators… and you see that often at Catholic schools. St. Joseph Catholic Secondary School in Toronto recently banned rainbows — rainbows — because they were “associated with Pride.” Mind you, if you wanted to ban things that reminded people of homosexuality, the whole goddamn Church would shut down, but that’s besides the point. In retaliation to their idiocy, 16-year-old Leanne Iskander, who started the school’s “unofficial” gay-straight alliance, held an… Read more
