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.
Pastor Roger Jimenez is the leader of Verity Baptist Church in Sacramento, California who made news this week when he said in a sermon that he was sad that the Orlando nightclub shooter didn’t “finish the job.” He also argued that the government should execute gay people via firing squad. He’s receive plenty of well-deserved negative attention for his comments. But how would you feel if you were the pastor of another church with the exact same name? Read more
Since I mentioned the Texas Democratic Convention earlier today, I wanted to also bring up this exciting news: The Secular Coalition for Texas will host the first-ever “Secular Caucus” today, in order to “educate the Texas Democratic party about non-religious voters, who now comprise more than one-quarter of the entire Democratic party.” Read more
When they hear the words “Mormon,” “Republican,” and “Utah,” LGBT people have good reason to run the hell away. But in a vigil speech made by Utah’s Mormon Republican Lt. Governor Spencer Cox this week, following the mass shooting in Orlando, he apologized about the way he treated gay people in his past: Read more