Christian conservatives in the State of Washington recently held a fundraiser on behalf of their proposal to create a new state, adding a fifty-first star to our national flag. The original idea was to split... Read More

Quebec is about to implement a new “Secularism bill” that the media can’t stand. The bill is simple and straightforward: government employees in positions of authority are prevented from imposing their religious views on the... Read More

The Tennessee legislature is at it again. Tennessee, of course, is the state that gave us the Scopes “Monkey Trial” in 1925. The legislature criminalized the teaching of evolution by natural selection, and the state... Read More

The travails of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) continue. Her latest sin was saying: “I should not be expected to have allegiance/pledge support to a foreign country in order to serve my country in Congress or... Read More

I couldn’t suppress a grin last week when I saw the exciting news. The House Committee on Natural Resources, now under Democratic control, was about to change its rules for witnesses at committee hearings by... Read More

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) captured headlines earlier this month by slamming her fellow Democrats for “fomenting religious bigotry” in a column published at The Hill. Riding a crest of Christian Right enthusiasm, she announced her... Read More

Four different articles last month devoted a staggering number of syllables to decrying the effects of the slump in organized religious affiliation. My suspicion is that their authors get paid by the word. But what’s... Read More