Michelle Goldberg, a senior writer at the online magazine Salon and author of the book, Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, has written a sobering piece on the erosion of civil rights in appeasement of a Christian worldview and Read more…
In a powerful piece for The Nation, Katha Pollitt has crystallized the consequences of allowing religious interests to control human sexuality. Her case in point: suppression of a vaccine against cervical cancer because the religious right fears it will encourage Read more…
The Pledge Protection Act would strip federal courts—including the Supreme Court—of the power to decide the constitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance and its “one nation under god” wording. See update below. If you want to thwart these attempts to Read more…
Despite bipartisan support for a bill that passed both Houses of Congress, our own U.S. Senator Norm Coleman voted against legislation that would expand funding for embryonic stem cell research. This position mirrors that of President Bush, who used his Read more…
On the one hand, Jerry Adler of Newsweek would dismiss atheism as barely amounting to a “movement,” citing the budget and membership of a single organization (American Atheists). On the other, he notes that The End of Faith by Sam Read more…