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.
With two days to go before Nashville’s mayoral election, candidate Megan Barry has already faced a nasty smear campaign from her opponent David Fox (below), who approved a radio ad suggesting Barry supports church/state separation (*gasp*) and has it out for Christian groups. Spoiler: She doesn’t. Now, Metro Councilman Duane Dominy is getting in on the action as a supporter of Fox. He put out a radio ad of his own saying that Barry (*double gasp*) doesn’t say the words “Under God” when reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Apparently, that’s a bad thing. Read more
Remember faith-healer Adam Miller? He’s the guy who claims to be able to cure cancer, spinal injuries, poisoning, and AIDS. When YouTuber Stephanie Guttormson called him out on it last year, Miller sued. He later dismissed his own motion but left the door open to sue again in the future. After all that went down, I thought it was the last time we’d hear from him… but it looks like’s he back and has a brand new website. And wouldn’t you know it, there’s a whole page dedicated to Guttormson and “Battling Evil (Cyber Bullies)”: Read more
And just like that, the judge who ordered Kim Davis to go to jail has ordered her to be released: U.S. District Court Judge David Bunning in Kentucky has ordered that Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis be released from jail. He ordered her not to interfere with clerks in her office issuing marriage licenses to all legally eligible couples. Her release still leaves on the table a lot of important questions: Read more
Earlier this year, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson signed a bill allowing a Ten Commandments monument to go up on the Capitol grounds. (As we saw in Oklahoma, however, that may not pass legal muster.) The one silver lining to all this is that the floodgates have now opened for all non-Christian groups to submit their own monument proposals. And that’s what The Satanic Temple has now officially done for their Baphomet statue: Read more
