Reading Time: 5 minutes In September of last year, my worst nightmare came true: Texas passed a severe ban on abortions and instituted a bounty on anyone attempting to aid or receive abortion health care. It was something right out of a dystopian novel. This had already been a reality for millions of people of color—now it had simply […]
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Does mental illness cause mass shootings? No, hate armed for war does.
Reading Time: 6 minutes First Amendment-loving conservatives have long blamed isolated mental-health issues in very angry individuals but never guns as the proximate cause of America’s decades-long epidemic of horrific mass shootings in America. Or they claim mass shootings are hardly a problem at all and that, by the way, overall gun violence is supposedly down in the United […]
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WV school district finally settles case involving Bible indoctrination classes
Reading Time: 5 minutes A West Virginia school district has finally paid up for decades of Christian indoctrination, putting an end to a five-year legal battle waged by a courageous student who faced considerable harassment over her “Bible in the Schools” class. All of this occurred in the Mercer County Schools, which offered “elective” Bible courses at the elementary […]
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Preacher reported to IRS for sermon saying Christians can’t ‘vote Democrat’
Reading Time: 4 minutes On Sunday, Christian hate-preacher Greg Locke, last seen on this site conducting a literal witch-hunt among his Global Vision Bible Church congregation, told his circus tent church that they had an obligation, as Christians, to vote for Republicans, in direct violation of IRS rules. He then looked into the camera, presumably to his critics, and told […]
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Kansas town to put ‘In God We Trust’ back on police cars—but there’s a twist
Reading Time: 3 minutes You knew it was too good to last. Two weeks ago, in Haven, Kansas, the city council asked the local police department to remove the “In God We Trust” decals from vehicles and to stop using their official Facebook page to promote Christianity. Council member Sandra Williams raising concerns about it, correctly noting that those […]
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Louisiana Court drops charges against pastor who ignored COVID restrictions
Reading Time: 3 minutes Pastor Tony Spell, the head of Louisiana’s Life Tabernacle Church, has finally received the legal victory he’s been clamoring for. The Louisiana Supreme Court ruled 5-2 yesterday that COVID restrictions instituted by the state’s governor in March of 2020 were unconstitutionally applied to Spell, who repeatedly violated it to hold church services in the name […]
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How God was wedged into secular Canada’s constitution
Reading Time: 4 minutes A new poll has some Canadians looking askance at their own constitution. Canada has a long, conflicted relationship between God and country. Like our neighbor to the south, our government is ostensibly secular, our history is rooted in religion, and our people are at the moment rapidly turning away from the church. Recent polling shows […]
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A rural Kansas town voted to remove ‘In God We Trust’ from police cars
Reading Time: 3 minutes If you visit the Facebook page of the Haven Police Department in Kansas, which oversees a rural town just outside of Wichita, you might wonder if it was being run by a government agency or a local church. That’s because it posts things like this, promoting Christianity in overt ways: Another post quotes Psalm 46:1: […]
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10 upcoming Supreme Court rulings
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Supreme Court is blazing a trail towards 1933 Germany with all of its wacky rulings. But if we were going to peer into a crystal ball, what will future decisions look like? Check out this shortlist of upcoming Supreme Court rulings. Uteruses have the right to remain silent (Justice Kavanaugh also writes in the […]
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PA Senator argues against After School Satan Clubs
Reading Time: 5 minutes This past April 19th, the Northern Elementary School Board in York, Pennsylvania held a vote which threatened constitutionally guaranteed rights of free expression and religious liberty of the Satanist community. The school board voted to deny students the opportunity to join the After School Satan Club. The board did not frame their vote in Constitutional […]