Hemant Mehta is the founder and editor of FriendlyAtheist.com, a YouTube creator, and podcast co-host. He is a former National Board Certified math teacher in the suburbs of Chicago. He has appeared on CNN and FOX News and served on the board of directors for Foundation Beyond Belief and the Secular Student Alliance. He has written multiple books, including I Sold My Soul on eBay and The Young Atheist's Survival Guide. He also edited the book Queer Disbelief.
In 2010, Bruce Horst was a self-employed Texan with a history of heart disease who couldn’t get health insurance. He was also an evangelical Christian who believed you had to help the suffering, the poor, the “least of these.” The Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) was a way to do just that, but to his surprise, the other evangelicals he knew just didn’t care. It led him to reassess his faith and eventually drop it altogether. Read more
The Catholic League’s Bill Donohue is angry about a lawsuit filed by a gay substitute teacher who was fired from his job at a Catholic high school after he announced his wedding plans. But rather than saying the man doesn’t have a case, Donohue insulted the very idea that the man was married. Read more