LGBTQ Students Can’t Be Dismissed New GLSEN Report Shows Discrimination Persists
The recent court rulings in favor of same-sex marriage have led many to believe that things are finally looking up for the LGBTQ community.... Read More
Same-Sex Marriage and the Doctrine of the Lower Magistrate
An October 17 news article out of Rockingham County, North Carolina, reported that Magistrate John Kallam Jr. chose to step down from his duties... Read More
Love Wins: LGBT Wedding Expo Embraces Marriage Equality
The twentieth of May this year was cause for celebration for many Pennsylvania residents: the state’s same-sex marriage ban was lifted and gay and... Read More
The Ethical Dilemma: Save Me From the God Stuff
Experiencing an ethical dilemma? Need advice from a humanist perspective? Send your questions to The Ethical Dilemma at dilemma@thehumanist.com (subject line: Ethical Dilemma). All... Read More
Reza Aslan, Religion, and Moral Influence
Religion scholar Reza Aslan is quite a big deal these days. When he’s not getting into heated arguments with CNN hosts over Islam or... Read More
Owning Up to Privilege and Moving Social Justice
“Here,” ordered the atheist/feminist author Sikivu Hutchinson, giving her impersonation of a member of the so-called New Atheism, “take this ‘We Are All Africans’... Read More
Rules Are for Schmucks: The Truth about the Houston Subpoenas to Christian Pastors
Senator Ted Cruz and the rest of the Christian Right were in an uproar last week over the City of Houston’s subpoenas to several... Read More
The Cartoon History of Humanism, Episode 12 Out-Princing the Princes: The Renaissance Patronage and Diplomacy of Isabella d’Este
View all episodes in the Cartoon History of Humanism series. Out-Princing the Princes: The Renaissance Patronage and Diplomacy of Isabella d’Este Bald-faced treachery has... Read More
Don’t Be a Dick’s
When twelve-year-old McKenna Peterson wrote to Dick’s Sporting Goods complaining that no women were represented as athletes in their basketball catalog, she was pointing... Read More
Misogyny Is Not a Game
The recent media frenzy surrounding Gamergate, which Erik Kain explains in detail in Forbes, has brought to light once again the issue of sexism... Read More
