Day four of our six-part series of awful bills based on religious ideology takes us to West Virginia, where reproductive rights are under assault. While this bill actually passed in September 2022, HB302 is a type of abortion ban that we expect to see replicated in various states during the upcoming legislative session. Although HB302…
Sold on Amazon. In Lawrence Samuel Shaw’s novel we meet Adolf Hitler as a manipulative, mendacious boy whose obsession with painting is met with angry distain from his conventional father. Losing his parents at an early age, the opinionated, argumentative teenager leaves his Linz, Austria home for Vienna and later Munich where he meets with…
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If you’ve followed our series on some of the worst bills we are seeing championed by the Religious Right, you may not think it could get worse. Well, brace yourself for a shockingly brazen attempt to influence students by our old friends at the South Carolina legislature: South Carolina’s H3466, or the “Academic Integrity Act,”…
Here we are, on day two of the Six Days of Awful Bills. All week, we are featuring some of the worst state bills that will be considered by state legislatures next year. They cover a number of priorities championed by the Religious Right: anti-education, anti-choice, and anti-LGBTQ policies. The bill we’re discussing today was…
This week, we are featuring some of the worst state bills that have been pre-filed. (Pre-filing is a process to expedite the legislative process by filing a bill before the legislative session starts.) These include some of the most terrible anti-education, anti-choice, and anti-LGBTQ bills in recent memory. Here, for example, is what we are…
Neil deGrasse Tyson on God – CBS Sunday Morning – Apr 40, 2017In this web exclusive, correspondent Martha Teichner asks the acclaimed astrophysicist, as he examines the universe, whether he believes in an all-powerful creator.
This year’s midterm elections proved how important the nonreligious voting bloc is—and people are finally realizing it. Nonreligious Americans “are making their presence felt,” wrote Associated Press reporter Peter Smith about the outcome of the midterm elections. As the AP reported, we are now 22% of the electorate! That makes us just as powerful of…
The Secular Recovery Bill (A.8163/S.7313) is a life-saving bill. It would ensure that atheists and religious minorities in court-ordered rehab programs can recover, without religion forced on them. But now Governor Hochul is threatening to veto this legislation. We must encourage her to protect New Yorkers from attacks on their religious freedom when they’re at their…
It too often goes unsaid that nonreligious people around the world face stigma, discrimination, and persecution. To draw attention to this problem, we held a launch event in Washington D.C. for Humanists International’s 2022 Freedom of Thought Report, which assesses how every country in the world treats humanists, atheists, and other nonreligious people. And we…