How many people of faith take seriously the biblical admonition against public prayer—“Be careful about not living righteously merely to be seen by people,” (Matthew 6:1)? Everywhere you turn more religious people are trying to... Read More

A lawsuit by the American Humanist Association and four individual plaintiffs resulted in a federal ruling on Tuesday, March 25, that placed a preliminary injunction on the Board of Commissioners of Carroll County, Maryland. The... Read More

Yesterday Judge William D. Quarels, Jr. of the U.S. District Court of Maryland issued the preliminary injunction today to stop sectarian prayers held before meetings of the Carroll County Board of Commissioners. The American Humanist... Read More

The American Humanist Association's Appignani Humanist Legal Center sent a letter today to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in response to USCIS's repeated rejection of naturalization applications... Read More

Have you heard the news? The BICEP2 team has discovered the signature of gravitational waves from the Big Bang! Whoooeee! Hot damn! So...what exactly does that mean? First of all, BICEP2 stands for Background Imaging... Read More

A few hours ago, some thirty Democratic U.S. senators concluded an all-night session of the Senate Climate Action Task Force to highlight the need to address climate change. Oh, and one Republican, Senator James Inhofe... Read More

If you read media reports about the American Humanist Association’s letter to the City of Lake Elsinore, California, complaining about a roadside Christian cross there, you might get the wrong idea. While it’s true that... Read More