Ariz. lawmaker comes out as atheist during meeting | USA Today
USA Today: The Arizona-based Alliance Defending Freedom appealed and the high-court ruling, expected by June 2014, will resolve conflicting appeals-court rulings about religious expression. Tuesday's...
View ArticleWhy Secular-Purpose Limits Should Be Narrow, and “Why Religion Is Special...
Thomas Berg at Mirror of Justice: Two key claims of Micah's article were that (1) you can't support distinctive accommodations for religious freedom unless you also support meaningful distinctive...
View ArticleBridging The Secular Divide – Watch Online Today | Evangelical Fellowship of...
Evangelical Fellowship of Canada: EFC President Bruce J. Clemenger and Policy Analyst Julia Beazley are two of the speakers at a conference called Bridging the Secular Divide: Religion and Canadian...
View ArticleChristian registrar denied European Court appeal
Christian Institute: Lillian Ladele was claiming religious discrimination after being forced out of her Islington Council job over her conscientious objection to same-sex civil partnerships. She was...
View ArticlePM’s assurances to Christians “wholly insufficient” after European court...
Christian Concern: The Grand Chamber of the Council of Europe has rejected a request for referral from three UK Christians, prompting serious concerns over legal protections for Christians in Britain.
View ArticleAir Force Says Painting that References Bible Verse Violates Rules
Todd Starnes at Fox News: An inspirational painting that referenced a Bible verse has been removed from a dining hall at Mountain Home Air Force Base after an anti-religion group filed a complaint.
View ArticleOur ‘Godless Constitution’: The Complicated Truth | Eric Metaxas at Christian...
Eric Metaxas at Christian Post: But there's a big difference between believing a Constitution should be secular, and believing that religion-in this case, Christianity-should have no influence on one's...
View ArticleSilencing a secularist in Turkey
Sam Nunberg at Washington Times: The Turkish criminal courts have increasingly been used to further Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Islamist agenda through hate-speech prosecutions. The...
View ArticleUK: Christian Girl Guide leaders risk explusion for refusing to drop God from...
Christian Concern: Christian Girl Guide and Brownie leaders in North Yorkshire risk being expelled from the movement after publicly refusing to remove God from their promise.
View ArticleBishop backs rebellion over Guides godless oath
Christian Institute: A group of Girl Guide and Brownie leaders will not use a new promise which removes reference to God, and has received the backing of Bishop Nazir-Ali.
View ArticleFrench Schools Will Post New Secularism Charter
Religion Clause Blog: France's Education Minister yesterday unveiled a new Secularism Charter designed to keep religion out of French schools.
View ArticleFrench Muslim leaders pan ‘secularism charter’, warn of ‘stigma’ boost
RT.com: Leaders of France's 6 million Muslims have been discouraged by the new ‘secularism charter’ designed to toughen rules banning religion from schools. Critics say it’s unsuitable for modern-day...
View ArticleAtheism And Creationism Course Content Sparks Holy War At Public University
The Blaze: It all started after the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), an atheist group, waged a complaint about a science class that taught creationism at BSU. In response, the Discovery...
View ArticleBishop warns Britain in danger of becoming “anti-Christian”
Christian Concern: Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali has warned that Britain risks becoming actively "anti-Christian" at the launch of Christian Concern’s publishing house “Wilberforce Publications” which seeks...
View ArticleDisestablishing Our Secular Schools | Charles Glenn at First Things
Charles Glenn at First Things: Religious liberty and educational reform both require the end of the public school monopoly
View ArticleWhere is public prayer allowed? | Aiken Standard
Aiken Standard: Soon the U.S. Supreme Court will hear and decide several controversial cases, one of which is public prayer at government meetings. The Town of Greece v. Galloway case revolves around...
View ArticleBritish Judge Traces Change In Role of Religion In Family Courts
Religion Clause Blog: British media are giving significant coverage to Tuesday's address by a senior judge, Sir James Munby, president of the Family Division, to a Law Society Conference. His remarks,...
View ArticleBrazil’s police take Bible classes to reduce stress
Religion News Service: Amid concerns about police brutality, Brazilian military police officers are taking Bible study classes during their working hours to help them deal with stress and improve their...
View ArticleNI: Churches urge Guides to scrap ‘hurtful’ godless pledge
Christian Institute: The new godless Girlguide promise is “divisive and hurtful” and should be scrapped, Churches in Northern Ireland have said. Meanwhile a Church of England vicar in Newcastle has...
View ArticleSchlafly: War on Religious Freedom
Phyllis Schlafly at GOP USA: The major strike force working to accomplish this consists of the American Civil Liberties Union plus various atheist groups. They are always ready to file lawsuits to get...
View ArticleScotland: New push to force sex ed on Christian schools
WorldNetDaily: “We believe that Relationships, Sexual Health and Parenthood Education should be mandatory across all state schools, with set curricular content modeled on the successful Dutch model,”...
View ArticleSecularists: Dump Church from Remembrance Day
Christian Institute: The National Secular Society has been accused of trying “to politicise Remembrance Sunday for their own ends”.
View ArticleUK: Secularists want Christian coronation oath scrapped
Christian Institute: Secularists have launched a campaign to end the Christian coronation oath, in a bid criticised as “deeply misjudged”.
View ArticleIs Religion Even Legal?
Kathryn Jean Lopez at National Review: Secularism would have you surrendering your conscience as soon as you leave a house of worship . . . to run a business, to run a hospital, to pay taxes.
View ArticleGirl Guide Group Faces Expulsion After Refusing To Drop God From Promise
Christian Concern: A threat to expel a Girl Guides unit which refuses to ditch its 103-year-old oath to God has been strongly criticised by Christian Concern. "The threat to force the Newcastle Girl...
View ArticleReligious Liberty Versus Secular Tyranny
Ray Nothstine at Acton Institute: James Madison called religious freedom the “lustre of our country” and a guaranteed right elevated above political authority. But in today’s America, some leaders,...
View ArticleChristian freedoms are ‘under attack’ – Bishop Nazir-Ali
The Christian Institute: Christian freedoms in the West are under attack from aggressive secularism, Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali has warned.
View ArticleSon of Tony Campolo comes out as agnostic, hired as humanist chaplain at...
Christian News Network: Bart Campolo, the son of ‘progressive’ social justice activist Tony Campolo, recently took the position of humanist chaplain at the University of Southern California just under...
View ArticleChristians likened to terrorist groups in secularist manifesto
The Christian Institute: Pro-marriage and pro-life Christians have been likened to violent terrorists by a group of secularists and atheists.
View ArticleSecular party set to win Tunisia elections
AP: Tunisia's main secular opposition party was claiming victory on Monday over once-dominant Islamists in the country's historic parliamentary elections.
View ArticleFederal court rules ‘secular humanism’ a religion, extends equal protection...
Christian News Network: In a landmark decision last week, a federal judge in Oregon declared ‘secular humanism’ to be a religion, opining that those who profess to be atheists and secular humanists...
View ArticleSecularists: Forget the Church on Remembrance Day
The Christian Institute: Secularists are again calling for the Church to be sidelined from Remembrance Day ceremonies.
View ArticleAtheists and Secular Humanists are protected by the First Amendment...
The Washington Post: A recent federal district court decision holding that Secular Humanist prisoners are entitled to organize a discussion groups focused on their beliefs on the same terms as theistic...
View ArticleEight reasons to be thankful for modern American secularists
Aleteia: We should love our opponents, and there really is a lot to love.
View ArticleEven materialists crave religion
First Things: Even materialists crave religion. The need to believe—to locate ultimate meaning in the universe—is deeply embedded in our natures.
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