MADISON– A national atheist lobbyist group has launched a newspaper advertisement campaign to pressure the Boy Scouts of America into welcoming secular students to its ranks. As previously reported, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) controversially decided this year to allow openly homosexual young men to join the Scouting program. This was an unprecedented reversal […]
Continue reading …WASHINGTON – Members of the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships recently welcomed a group of atheists to discuss public relations between the Obama Administration and American secularists. In a press release issued on Monday, the Secular Coalition for America (SCA) announced that several of its members had visited with Melissa Rogers, Director of the White […]
Continue reading …AUSTIN – Members of the Texas House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a 20-week late-term abortion ban during the wee hours of Monday morning. With almost a three-to-one ratio, Texas legislators voted 97-33 to authorize Senate Bill 5 (SB5), which will now be sent to the Texas Senate for consideration later this week. This comes nearly […]
Continue reading …WASHINGTON – A petition urging the Obama administration to ban the teaching of creation and intelligent design in U.S. schools was recently filed on the White House website. Written by an individual simply identified as “A.J.” from Vienna, Virginia, the 116-word petition claims that even though Darwinian evolution is “treated as scientific fact by 99.9% of […]
Continue reading …COLUMBIA– A group of students from a state community college in Tennessee are seeking legal help after one of their professors required them to wear rainbow ribbons during class in support of homosexuality. Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) issued a press release this week regarding the matter, describing how a psychology professor at Columbia State Community College […]
Continue reading …OMAHA – Homosexual activists are enraged by a Christian university’s decision to expel an openly lesbian student after she violated one of the school’s conduct policies. Danielle Powell, a 24-year-old Nebraskan, was pursuing a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Grace University (GU) in Omaha. As reported by the Omaha World-Herald, Powell considered herself a Christian […]
Continue reading …NEW YORK – A small academy in Manhattan is teaching students as young as five years old how to practice witchcraft and become full-fledged Wiccan sorcerers. The Wiccan Family Temple Academy of Pagan Studies (WFTAPS), founded six years ago, is the first school of its kind in the New York City area, and offers a […]
Continue reading …Fresh findings in the field of genetics have directly challenged yet another key evolutionary hypothesis by showing that the differences between humans and apes cannot be easily accounted for under the theory of evolution. A recent 12-page journal article, written by three scientists in Spain and published in Molecular Biology and Evolution, details the results […]
Continue reading …ST. PETERSBURG – A mother has filed a petition against her 14-year-old son’s middle school after he was not allowed to wear makeup on his last day of classes. Chris Martin, an 8th grader at St. Petersburg’s Meadowlawn Middle School, decided to wear mascara, eye liner, eye shadow, and black lipstick to his school on […]
Continue reading …BANGOR – On Wednesday, the Maine Supreme Court heard arguments for a case involving a student’s access to restrooms of the opposite sex. The case centers around Wyatt Maines, a 15-year-old identical twin boy who identifies himself as a girl. According to an interview with his parents conducted by the Bangor Daily News, Wyatt has […]
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