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.
I’ve heard of students being told they had to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance even though they legally don’t have to. But I’ve rarely seen the adults at a school flip out over the issue as much as they did this week at Acadiana High School in Louisiana. The American Humanist Association’s Appignani Humanist Legal Center sent a letter to Superintendent Donald Aguillard detailing the unbelievable things junior Raymond Smith had to deal with. Read more
Last night’s Saturday Night Live included a spoof of God’s Not Dead that worked in all the anti-gay bigotry taking place in the country at the hands of Christians. This time, the persecuted Christian character was determined to fight back against the Forces of Evil who kept trying to convince the world that God is gay. He’s not gay! she told the courtroom. “God is a boob man!” And the crowd went wild. Read more
Four months after New Zealand ruled that representatives of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster were legally allowed to perform marriage ceremonies, and two months after Karen Martyn became the first official Pastafarian celebrant (a.k.a. a “ministeroni”), there has finally been a legally sanctioned Pastafarian wedding: Read more