Federal Judge’s Decision a Win for LGBTQ Rights and for Church/State Separation
Since the US Supreme Court’s ruling on Obergefell v. Hodges last year, marriage equality should be resolved. Yet the religious right still continues to push back against the rights of LGBTQ Americans. Red states began... Read More
Need Birth Control? There’s an App for That!
Earlier this week, humanists and other reproductive rights advocates experienced a pivotal and much-needed win when the US Supreme Court struck down Texas’s unduly burdensome restrictions on abortion providers and clinics. But there is also... Read More
Canada Chooses Compassion over Convention
International affairs suffered quite the shock this past week as the United Kingdom confounded expert opinion by leaving the European Union, spreading panic through the global financial system. But not all is gloom and doom... Read More
Is Gene Editing Causing a Revival of Eugenics?
Last week the National Institutes of Health cleared the gene-editing technology known as CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) for its first clinical test of human patients. While the initial test involves editing to... Read More
Pressure from Religious Nations Checks UN Action for Human Rights
In a world where religious faith seems to be losing its grip on the policies and politics of our time, it appears that those evangelical forces who would use faith as an explanation to block... Read More
Humanists Celebrate Major Victory for Reproductive Rights
Today I attended the rally outside of the US Supreme Court in anticipation of the decision on Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, the most significant abortion case to be decided by the Court since Planned Parenthood v.... Read More
Donald Trump Thinks Your Kids Should Go To Sunday School
If Donald Trump had his way, we—a humanist news site published by the nonprofit, tax-exempt American Humanist Association—would be able to freely discuss how good or bad a president we think he’d be. But we... Read More