AI for legalizing prostitution, misogynists oppose
I don’t understand why prostitution is illegal. Selling is legal. Fucking is legal. Why isn’t selling fucking legal? You know, why should it be illegal to sell something that’s perfectly legal to give...
View ArticleWelsh Government wishes to replace ‘Religious Education’ subject in schools...
This news comes from the British Humanist Association: Taking questions in the Senedd, the Welsh Minister for Education and Skills, Huw Lewis, has announced that he wants to see a transformation of the...
View ArticleTen Commandments Displayed on Private Property in Rush Springs
While Oklahoma government officials are having trouble figuring out what to do with our state-owned monument to Abrahamic monotheism, some folks in the small town of Rush Springs are leading by...
View ArticleAI votes to legalize prostitution (and that’s the right call)
Last week we mentioned that Amnesty International would ask for legalizing prostitution in countries where it is still illegal —and it is in much of the world, even in civilized countries— if the...
View ArticleGun Shop Declared Muslim-Free
Meanwhile in Muskogee County, the Tulsa World reports that a gun shop has declared itself a “Muslim free establishment” in defiance of Oklahoma Civil Rights laws. §25-1402. Discriminatory practice. It...
View Article‘Vive Charlie’, the magazine that draws Muhammad
In July, Charlie Hebdo capitulated to terrorism and decided to stop drawing Muhammad, so that their workers could live. While that enlightened beacon went off to join all the coward voices of Western...
View ArticleProgressive Oklahomans Rally for the Constitution
Earlier today, about a hundred progressives and even a couple of conservatives showed up on the north lawn of the Oklahoma State Capitol for an event entitled Mary Fallin: Do Your Job – Obey the...
View ArticleThere Is An Atheist Community
No community there. I know, I know, all atheism is, is the lack of belief in deities and strictly speaking, atheists have nothing more in common with each other aside from that and our ability to...
View ArticleKeep God in Public Schools
Yesterday was the first day of the school year in our humble town, bringing the usual flood of photos of adorable youngsters with their new outfits and accessories in my Facebook feed. This joyful...
View ArticleAtheist sentenced to prison for arguing with priest (?)
Ángel Moyano is the Executive Director of the Secular Humanist Society of Peru and is currently serving a sentence behind bars in a Peruvian maximum security prison, although he is innocent. His only...
View ArticleGOP Science Denialism (Part 1)
Remember this choice moment from just a couple of election cycles ago? If you thought that was embarrassing, just wait until the question (or something much like it) is posed this time around. I’m...
View ArticleThe importance of sympathizing with Kim Davis
As reported by CNN and others, Kim Davis is back at work at the Rowan County Clerk’s office. She reached a compromised with Judge David Bunning that licences would not have her name on them, but...
View ArticleAn Atheist Reacts To Bernie Sanders’ Speech At Liberty University
It is relatively easy to go and speak to a crowd who agrees with you on most of the issues but it is much harder, as Bernie Sanders pointed out to speak to a crowd that disagrees with you on most...
View ArticleFounding Father John Adams: Christianity, Atheism and Democracy
The Founding Fathers are still on the front line of debate amongst atheists and Christians, secularists and theocrats alike. All these years later there is still confusion abounding. Part of the reason...
View ArticleBen Carson: Consistent with the Constitution?
A telling exchange from yesterday’s edition of Meet the Press: Chuck Todd: “Should a President’s faith matter?” Ben Carson: “Well, I guess it depends on what that faith is. If it’s inconsistent with...
View ArticleThe Pope Is Coming To Town!
You better watch out; you better not cry. Better not pout; I’m telling you why. The Pope is coming to town. He’s making a list and checking it twice. He’s gonna find out who’s naughty and nice. The...
View ArticleWarwick University Student Union bans atheist human rights activist from...
The BHA reports this annoyingly insane story. Please tweet them or email a complaint: The British Humanist Association (BHA) has reacted with alarm at news that a non-religious human rights activist,...
View ArticleRepublicans (crank) called by God
When it comes to the 2016 Presidential election in the U.S., the Republicans are suffering from what I can only call an embarrassment of riches, with a field so wide that they have yet to fit them all...
View ArticleEx-Muslim speaker’s Warwick University ban overturned following public pressure
Following what I reported from the BHA the other day, the Coventry Telegraph reports the following good and sensible news. Respect to Warwick SU for fully accepting it as a cock-up, apologising and...
View ArticleThe Pope’s Magical Germs
Over the weekend, the news coverage in the Philadelphia suburbs has been all Pope all the time. I seriously thought my local news station was EWTN. Some of the news stories I heard were so...
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