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.
If Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton could eliminate the Establishment Clause, he’d do it. That’s how little he cares about church/state separation. The most clear evidence of this became clear last summer during the Kim Davis debacle. Paxton gave county clerks in Texas a green light to discriminate against gay couples, adding that “numerous lawyers stand ready to assist clerks defending their religious beliefs.” So when Paxton had to appoint a new First Assistant Attorney General because the last one ran off to run a Ted Cruz Super-PAC, you know we should be worried. And Paxton didn’t disappoint: Read more
There’s a reason so many Pastafarians have been able to get away with wearing strainers on their heads for driver’s license pictures: They say they belong to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. It’s their religion, and it requires them to wear the head covering. And the government has no right to say otherwise. Ken Egilsson is now using that same logic to say he should be allowed to wear an Edmonton Oilers cap for his own license picture in Alberta, Canada: Read more