By George Francis Kane On December 6 the Star Tribune reprinted a Ross Douthat commentary opposing legal physician-assisted dying for people with a terminal illness. I sent it out to a small working group that is writing letters-to-the-editor to promote the secularist view on current issues. Steve Petersen and I Read more…
By Lee Salisbury, Axis of Logic In a 1968 symposium sponsored by the Christian Medical Society and the flagship magazine of evangelicals, Christianity Today, evangelicals refused to characterize abortion as sinful, citing “individual health, family welfare, and social responsibility” as justification for ending a pregnancy. In 1971, delegates to the Read more…
By George Francis Kane What a difference five years makes. In 2017, I feared that the Court was “lead[ing] us … to a place where separation of church and state is a constitutional slogan, not a constitutional commitment.” Today, the Court leads us to a place where separation of church Read more…
By August Berkshire The following essay was presented at the Day of Reason rally, hosted by Minnesota Atheists in the State Capitol rotunda on May 5, 2022. Religion and medicine have always had an odd relationship. If you believe an all-powerful god created and rules over the universe, then how Read more…
SCOTUS Takes Aim at the Wrong Basket By George Francis Kane Women’s basketball fans celebrated the South Carolina Gamecocks’ 64–49 thrashing of the UConn Huskies to win the NCAA women’s basketball championship. I stopped following the tournament when Stanford was knocked out, and knew nothing of the South Carolina powerhouse. Read more…