Reading Time: 2 minutes Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that taxpayers in Maine had to cover the costs of private religious education even when Christian indoctrination was front and center. It was a horrible decision loudly derided by church/state separation advocates. But state lawmakers may have found a way to nullify its effects. Carson v. Makin involved a […]
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Atheist sues company that fired him for not coming to daily prayer meetings
Reading Time: 3 minutes A lawsuit filed Monday by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) claims that two employees at a North Carolina-based company were fired for not participating in the daily Christian prayer meetings. The complaint was filed on behalf of John McGaha (an atheist) and Mackenzie Saunders (an agnostic) against Aurora Pro Services, a company that handles […]
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For many evangelical Christians, God and guns are inextricably linked
Reading Time: 3 minutes When the mass shooting occurred in Uvalde, Texas last month, you may have seen one particular image online. It was a (since-deleted) tweet from Daniel Defense, the company that made the gun used to kill 19 children and two adults, not just showing a children playing with a weapon, but also invoking a biblical verse […]
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The Supreme Court rewarded religious coercion by a Christian football coach
Reading Time: 14 minutes The first line of the Supreme Court ruling this morning in Kennedy v. Bremerton, about a Christian football coach who wanted to pray at midfield after games, is built on two lies. And it only gets worse from there. Writing for the 6-3 majority, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote, “Joseph Kennedy lost his job as a […]
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The Christian nationalist dream of overturning Roe is a nightmare
Reading Time: 5 minutes On Sunday, conservative Christian pastors across America will celebrate the terror they’ve unleashed upon the nation. With a 6-3 ruling by the Supreme Court this morning to overturn Roe v. Wade, leaving women’s bodily autonomy dependent on whether Republicans control their state legislatures, white evangelicals and conservative Catholics and their allies won a game they […]
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Three men have sued the Catholic Church in Maine for child sex abuse
Reading Time: 2 minutes Now that a new law in Maine has gone into effect, giving sexual abuse victims a chance to seek justice even if the statute of limitations had previously kept them out of courts, three men have filed lawsuits against the Catholic Church. The Maine law now allows victims of childhood sexual abuse to file a […]
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In Carson v Makin, Supreme Court blows a giant hole in church/state separation
Reading Time: 8 minutes The conservative super-majority on the Supreme Court just punched another giant hole in the wall of separation between church and state in the case of Carson v Makin, ruling 6-3 to overturn a perfectly sensible Maine law. What the Carson v Makin case is all about Students in Maine are guaranteed free public education until […]
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Republicans building an ‘army’ to fight alleged voter fraud
Reading Time: 2 minutes In an attempt to combat alleged voter fraud, the Republican Party plans to engage in voter fraud with a twist. Politico reported on this plan in early June, in which it stated there are multiple strategy plans to overturn votes in Michigan Democratic precincts. This plan includes installing trained recruits as poll workers as well […]
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Christian cops are now claiming COVID swab tests violate their faith
Reading Time: 4 minutes A bunch of San Diego cops who already received exemptions to COVID vaccine mandates are now demanding they be exempt from even being checked for COVID, claiming that the swab tests also violate their Christian faith. It’s just more proof that these religious exemptions are nothing more than lazy excuses to avoid perfectly sensible safety […]
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Pastor who said he mistook 14-y.o. girl for wife in bed sentenced to prison
Reading Time: 3 minutes A pastor is heading to prison after saying he began sexually abusing a little girl because he mistakenly thought she was his wife. David A. Walker was sentenced last week to 4.5 years behind bars after abusing the victim for two years beginning when she was only 14. He will also have to register as […]