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.
Yesterday, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore told all probate judges to stop issuing marriage licenses to gay couples, essentially overriding what the Supreme Court said was perfectly legal last year. He also argued that the state’s ban on gay marriage, legally and legislatively, trumped national law: Read more
The American Family Association has a history of telling lies. After all, this is the Christian hate group that came up with a “bigotry map” that included atheist groups that did nothing more than exist. (That’s seriously all it took to be placed on the map.) Their latest lie? They posted this graphic on Facebook last night: Read more
Katherine Stewart reports on a disturbing trend that’s not news to regular readers of this site: Christians who offer anti-bullying, sex education, and science programs to public schools, with the actual goal of seeking converts. How do they pull that off? Sometimes they never explicitly mention Christianity. But they promote ideas familiar to anyone in conservative circles, like the notion that there’s something wrong with you if you’re not abstinent until marriage: Read more
It ought to be common sense that public school coaches shouldn’t be leading or participating in prayer with their students, but we’ve seen so many violations of that that it bears repeating. David Niose, legal director of the American Humanist Association’s Appignani Humanist Legal Center, made a brief video reminding students and coaches alike about what the laws are with regard to coach-led prayer. Read more
