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Supreme Court in Massachusetts set to hear a case against the pledge of allegiance

By Al Stefanelli • November 1, 2012

The Huffington Post reports that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will be hearing an appeal case made by a family of non-believers that challenges

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Religious exemption allows some Florida homes to abuse and torture children

By Al Stefanelli • October 30, 2012

The Tampa Bay Times reports that some unlicensed religious homes can abuse children and continue operating for years. This is due to a thirty-year-old

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Indiana school ordered to cease and desist allowing illegal religious activity

By Al Stefanelli • October 23, 2012

Summit Middle School in Ft. Wayne, IN, has cancelled a youth pastor's visits in response to a decision by a Federal court. The suit

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More Afghan girls attend school

By D. Beeksma • July 14, 2012

Some are calling it "a revolution" in education.  With the Taliban no longer in control, many more girls have been allowed to attend school

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Child evangelism group and sponsor of 'Good News Clubs' reaches milestone with 100,000 'Boxes of Books'

By D. Beeksma • June 20, 2012

little girl holding bible

Child Evangelism Fellowship® (CEF) describes itself as "a Bible-centered, worldwide organization that is dedicated to seeing every child reached with the Gospel of the

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Biblical instruction teaches school children about murdering donkeys and atheists

By D. Beeksma • June 10, 2012

Katherine Stewart, journalist and author of The Good News Club, has been warning that there is an effort to include extreme, fundamentalist Christian indoctrination in

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Federal district judge wants to make the 10 commandments Establishment Clause compliant–by cutting out the four that mention God

By Dakota O'Leary • May 8, 2012

We reported last September about the ACLU lawsuit against the Giles County, VA school board, who challenged a display of historical documents, including the

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TN lawmaker: "Everybody in this room knows what gateway sexual activity is."

By D. Beeksma • May 5, 2012

Rep. John DeBerry

With the close of the first legislative session of 2012, Tennessee has passed an interesting assortment of conservative legislation, summarized by the Associated Press. 

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Liberty University students appalled over choice of Romney as commencement speaker; students say Liberty should have gotten a "real Christian"–one student withdraws from the school

By Dakota O'Leary • April 23, 2012

Liberty University is getting a bit of a reputation for being a hotbed of controversy–first over Liberty's decision to allow controversial conservative pastor Mark

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Missouri’s “Don’t Say Gay” Bill advances

By Mriana • April 21, 2012

Apparently copying Tennessee, a Missouri committee in the House passed its own “Don’t Say Gay” bill last Thursday.  Rep. Steve Cookson (R-153) sponsors the

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Federal judge allows gay Ohio teen to wear "Jesus is not a homophobe" T-shirt in school–for now

By Dakota O'Leary • April 10, 2012

Aptly named high school junior Maverick Couch celebrated the National Day of Silence in April of 2011 by wearing a T-shirt to school to

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Christians and Other Religious Groups Speak out against the Religious Right’s Attack on Schools in Seattle, Washington

By Mriana • April 7, 2012

Various religious groups, including Christians, spoke out against the Religious Right, on a program called American Podium in Seattle, Washington, saying that the Religious

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Jessica Ahlquist Receives Scholarship from the American Humanist Association

By Mriana • March 28, 2012

Jessica Ahlquist, of Rhode Island, was the sixteen-year-old teenager who challenged the Constitutionality of a banner at her school, receiving a lot of harassment, online

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