Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy is a K-8 charter school in Inver Grove Heights. Star Tribune columnist, Katherine Kirsten, writes that, “Students pray daily, the cafeteria serves halal food – permissible under Islamic law — and “Islamic Studies” is offered at the end of the school day.” School buses don’t leave Read more
The Secular Coalition for America has researched the budget for fiscal year 2008 which was passed by congress and determined that over 140 earmarks , or special directed funding to a project, worth almost $30 million dollars, are going to constitutionally suspect religious activities. Before you blame the “religious right,” Read more
No, we don’t mean to imply PZ Myers, a biology professor from the University of Minnesota, Morris, was removed from the footage in the film which had the title “Crossroads,” and was to be about religion and science. PZ Myers, who appears in the film, and is thanked in the Read more
Liquor stores hate them. Car sales people love them. ‘Blue Laws’ are laws used to govern certain moral standards, and are usually in reference to laws prohibiting actions on Sunday. Most of these ‘Blue Laws’ around the country have been overturned, declared unconstitutional, or are left unenforced. Minnesota is one Read more
No, not Lori Lipman Brown of the Secular Coalition for America in Washington D.C., Jennifer Lange is a lobbyist in Albany, New York. She’s a part time lobbyist for the Institute for Humanist Studies. She fights for the rights on nonbelievers in New York, including seperation of church and state Read more