The University of Minnesota’s newspaper, The Minnesota Daily, recently released a survey of the religious beliefs of U of M students. 7.5% of those surveyed responded that they were atheists and 14.9% said they were agnostics. This in spite of Read more
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