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The Christian Legal Society sued Hastings College of Law, University of California, because Hastings refused to allow a local chapter to receive student funds. Why? The chapter wanted to exclude from membership anyone who didn't subscribe to and sign a statement of Christian faith.

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The American Humanist Association (AHA) voiced disappointment today in a US District Court verdict allowing a council of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) to occupy a building owned by the city of Philadelphia rent-free, despite the city’s attempt to end the lease because of the BSA’s discriminatory policies. The verdict was handed down after the scouting council sued the city for attempting to end the lease due to BSA’s discriminatory practices.

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CFI has raised concerns stemming from Ms. Kagan’s record on religious liberty, as detailed in documents released to the Senate Judiciary Committee during her current nomination and her nomination to serve as U.S. Solicitor General.

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The transfer to the new server finally completed at 2:23 AM. Some comments, from Friday evening through Sunday evening, appear to have been lost. Since we use IntenseDebate, which should be storing comments externally, it may be possible to re-import them. I’ll see what’s possible. All content which was double-posted (on the old location and [...]

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Bigger better day of prayer in Gulf fails; why?

Multiple days of prayer in the Gulf have brought nothing but more donations to churches. One astute Christian leader thinks she knows why God isn’t listening.

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June 27 Atheist Cartoon:  The Madman

Courtesy of AtheistCartoons.com.

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“One Nation Indivisible” but not safe from vandals

An unknown tagger sloppily scrawled his disagreement with Francis Bellamy’s original Pledge of Allegiance on the NCSecular billboard in Charlotte, NC, hastily scribbling “Under God” in blue spray paint.

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If you ostracise them, will they come?

Humans, like all other primates, are obsessed by their peer group of colleagues and acquaintances. And that’s for good reason because, for primates, being excluded from the group can be lethal. So what do you do if you find yourself being ostracised? Well, for humans at least, one option is to turn to religion. Religion, [...]

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Liam Fox:  Christian Conservative politics: The death of democracy

Religion missed the age of enlightenment; America and its Constitution did not. Do not let the conservative Christian nationalists, the Christian Reconstructionists, and the Dominionist Evangelicals rob this country of its freedom, liberty and Constitutional rights.

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Blag Hag attends Evolution 2010 in Portland. The AAAS had a session on communicating science (to the religious) . . . which quickly became an atheist-bash-fest. Much of the talk was about distancing support of evolution with atheistic views – that we need to stress that religion and science is compatible so people in the [...]

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