… or so say the folks over at Liberty Counsel: Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel, commented: “Macy’s policy which allows men to use the women’s dressing room is fraught with problems. This policy will cause significant problems and will alienate the majority of Macy’s customers. Macy’s has essentially opened women’s dressing rooms to every man. The LGBT agenda has become the theater of the absurd.” Some background on Staver’s statement: A Macy’s employee in San… Read more
A trio of FEC commissioners just issued a statement urging a penalty for a religious group that violated disclosure requirements. To understand why they were concerned and how the FEC in general got it wrong, we have to go back a few years. During the 2008 presidential election, a group called Informed Catholic Citizens (their website appears to be defunct) made robocalls supporting John McCain and urging Catholics to vote for him because of his anti-abortion record. The Freedom From Religion Foundation… Read more
Comedian Patton Oswalt spoke to Keith Olbermann about the video featuring a young boy telling Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann that his lesbian mother “doesn’t need any fixing.” It gets to the point many of you made that the boy may have been coerced to say what he did by his mother: Read more
We know it’s tough to be an atheist in general. It’s not easy being gay, either. But when you’re both of those things — in Houston, Texas — it’s even worse. Sometimes you feel like you’re the only person you know who fits that description. Reader Jimmy wanted fellow Houston gaytheists to know they’re not alone and that the Houston Atheists would welcome them with open arms, so he created the following ad: After reading the recent articles you had… Read more
I know you’re dying to find out what’s in Satan’s playbook… and now we can find out! Warren W. Wiersbe has written a free book for the Kindle called The Strategy of Satan and it’ll be released on December 15th. Strategy #1: Judging from the symbol, become an anarchist…? I ordered my copy. The high Amazon ranking this book will get thanks to atheists will be a small price to pay for what is sure to be a hilarious way… Read more
Liz Heywood is the daughter of Christian Scientist parents… and you already know where this story is going. She had osteomyelitis, a treatable bone infection, but because her parents neglected her medical needs and resorted to prayer instead, she wasn’t able to get better. Her condition got worse over the next couple of decades, and she eventually had one of her legs amputated in 2007. You can read her full story here (it was also read to Obama administration officials… Read more
Reason’s Greetings everyone! Please enjoy this ‘Wednesday Webcomic’ that I’m sure many of you can identify with. I whipped up this story by integrating what are, in my opinion, chain letter’s greatest hits. What’s the most ludicrous forward you have ever received? See you next week! Read more
It’s official: Religious organizations can no longer use NYC public schools to hold worship services after hours. The legalese: The Supreme Court recently declined to review a Second Circuit decision, Bronx Household of Faith v. Board of Education of the City of New York, which upheld New York City Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) § 5.9 (now SOP § 5.11), which prohibited the use of school property for religious services. What’s really going on: In 1994, the Bronx Household… Read more
Cristina Ramos-Payne didn’t like what happened at her daughter’s religious education class this past weekend. The night before, the pastor at her church spoke about how, as a child, he discovered his parents putting Christmas presents under their tree… One student from [daughter] Sierra’s class suddenly realized that his parents must be leaving presents and cried that night about the loss of Santa. He told this to the religious ed. teacher. The teacher then took it upon himself to explain… Read more
Sometimes, it pays to track online mentions of the organization you work for. The Secular Student Alliance’s Jesse Galef (who also contributes to this site) Read more
