America's Most Convenient Bank® refuses to serve Christians
Representatives of a well known faith-based charitable organization were refused a New Jersey bank’s notarization service by an atheist employee. After inquiring about the nature of the non-profit...
View ArticleSupreme Court upholds religious prayers in local government proceedings, 5-4
This is why she's on the Court.Today's Supreme Court decision in Town of Greece v. Galloway isn't about whether Congress or state legislatures can start their proceedings with prayer; all nine justices...
View ArticleTed Cruz's Father: Banning the Bible in Public Schools = Teen Pregnancy,...
Ted Cruz claimed at a recent Christian conference sponsored by the Family Research Council that Democrats were trying to repeal the First Amendment.At this very same meeting, his father, Rafael Cruz,...
View ArticleWhy I Call Myself Atheist Instead of Agnostic
For many years of my childhood, I was a Christian. In my teens, I eventually lost my faith. However, for a long time, I identified myself as an Agnostic, because while I no longer believed in the...
View ArticleNo faith–vaccines, religion, and healthcare workers
Guest blog by Dorit Rubinstein Reiss. Dr. Reiss is a Professor of Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, CA. Dorit writes extensively in law journals about...
View ArticleHobby Lobby: SCOTUS reserves right to establish state religion of its choice
Congress can't establish a religion. But these guys will certainly try. This past Monday, the five conservative male justices of the Supreme Court issued their ruling in perhaps the most highly...
View ArticleGINSBURG, J., dissenting
It matters that we have progressive-thinking Judges sitting on the bench of the Supreme Court.Here are few reasons why ... the notable dissenting points 5, 6, and 7 from Justice Ginsburg:The 8 Best...
View ArticleHobby Lobby demonstrates that RFRA violates the establishment clause
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religionCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof [. . .] (First Amendment...
View ArticleAyatollah Alito
Ayotallah Ali Hosseini Khamenei, say hello to your new comrade, Ayotallah Samuel Alito. Supreme Leader meet Supreme Court Justice.And, no, regrettably, this is not hyperbole.With his pronouncement in...
View ArticleThe Plumber Pontificates
The Plumber PontificatesMarkwayne Mullin Takes on the Constitutionby Barry FriedmanFirst appeared in The Tulsa VoiceIn 2005, Associate Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote, “Those who would...
View ArticleHow the Federal Government and the Corporate Media lie to us every Christmas Eve
Every year, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) maintains a tracker of Santa Claus and the reindeer who pull his sleigh, and "Santa's location" is frequently broadcast by numerous news...
View ArticleReligion Does Not Make Bigots. Religion Only Provides Cover for Underlying...
I know that there have been a lot of diaries on the RFRA laws like the one in Indiana already. I don't know how much more my take contributes to it.On the other hand, I think that if people were more...
View Article"American Hysteria" a case of historical blindness
Being interested in the topic, and so having bought and perused the book, last night I went to see Andrew Burt, author of American Hysteria: The Untold Story of Mass Political Extremism in the United...
View ArticleSo-called "Crisis Pregnancy Centers" get federal funds and lie to women
So-called Crisis Pregnancy Centers practice medicine without a license (sonograms), lie to their patients (abortion causes sterility, increases the risk of breast cancer, causes post-abortion stress...
View ArticleThe Conservative Craving for Anti-Intellectual Stew
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life,...
View ArticleAfter ACORN. Planned Parenthood?
A campaign of lies and deceit led to the defunding of ACORN and its disappearance from the scene. Falsified and selectively edited videos gave its enemies ammunition. How was funding cut off when...
View ArticleWhy DOMA was one of Bill Clinton's biggest mistakes
I get why Bill Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) back in 1996, it was for the purpose of political expdiency and blocking a possible constitutional amendment coming out of the...
View ArticleReligious Liberty Claims are Nonsensical
The Little Sisters of the Poor vocations director, Constance Veit, explained in her NYT's March editorial, " Why We're Suing Obamacare , " that she and her order oppose the birth control insurance...
View ArticleHypocrisy of Trump on Clinton and 2nd Amendment - He Represents Far Greater...
"Donald Trump, you're asking Americans to trust you with their future. Let me ask you, have you even read the United States Constitution?"— Khizr Khan“I wasn’t particularly impressed,” Sanford said....
View ArticleSander's Brings up the Taboo Subject of What being a Christian Implies.
Donald J. Trump is President because he realized that what Hillary Clinton described as “deplorables” was enough, when added to hard core economic Republicans, to get him elected to office. All of...
View ArticleGOP congressional politicians refuse to defend the Constitution, reject the...
..and the 'Rule of Law' ? ..words these days that republicans in congress chant to one another over and over while in the process of law breaking Lawrence O’Donnell had two of the wisest women...
View ArticleJoy Reid calls for violating the Establishment Clause on Twitter
AUTHOR’S NOTE: The author of this story is NOT a licensed attorney and does not claim to be one.MSNBC anchor and neoliberal pundit Joy Reid essentially called for the U.S. federal government to...
View ArticleI remember fondly the Establishment Clause
I am very saddened by the fact that the Supreme Court has apparently abandoned the Establishment Clause.First it was Greece.Then Hobby LobbyThen the silly cake case.And the Washington florist.Now it’s...
View ArticlePersonal thoughts on the National Cathedral memorial to George H.W. Bush
I happened to have turned it on the very moment when his son walked over to President Trump and shook his hand, his wife’s and the other presidential couples on that bench — and then walked across the...
View ArticleReligious Freedom Week 2019: A Retrospective #StDD #ReligousFreedomeIs
Religious Freedom Week: What would Martin do? I think Martin Luther King, Jr, would have supported Religious Freedom Day activities. I don't know what specific activities he would have supported....
View ArticleTrump's Supreme Court appointees show their true, extremist colors in...
In two 5-4 decisions Thursday evening, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the state of Alabama to execute a Muslim inmate after denying him the presence of his imam and blocked a Louisiana abortion law...
View ArticleThursday Hangout - Unholy Alliances: DeMille and the Fraternal Order of...
"How can 'Christians' support the current pResident?" is a question we've all heard over and over again. I, however, think it's the wrong question, or at least a question that is asked without benefit...
View ArticleRepublican state rep ruins swearing-in of PA's first Muslim-American woman...
I was thrilled to work to help elect Rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell in a special election earlier this month. After she lost her son to gun violence in 2013, she created the CHARLES Foundation, a...
View ArticlePicks of the Week from the Daily Kos Community, March 30 (and a Community...
Welcome back, dearest Community! It’s that time of week again! You may have noticed (or not) that there were no picks last week. That’s because, with rare exception, the entire Daily Kos staff was...
View ArticleSupreme Court effectively grandfathers in most older religious displays on...
On a publicly owned traffic circle in Bladensburg, Maryland, sits a 32-foot-high Latin cross, erected almost a century ago as a memorial to the World War I dead of Prince George’s County. Today’s 7-2...
View ArticleThe American Way to Resolve the Political War Over Abortion
This piece just ran as my weekly newspaper op/ed in my very red congressional district (VA-06).*****************************Of all the human tragedies that are associated with the issue of abortion,...
View ArticleAmerica's Founders are 'gagging' at the idea of today's Republican Party: Tim...
Tim Egan, in a searing Op-Ed for The New York Times, illustrates just how far the core values of the Republican Party and its adherents have strayed from the America that the Founding Fathers sought to...
View ArticleThe puppet is 'unprecedented' - the political power grab is not
Unprecedented. If you have been paying attention at all to politics the last three years, you know to what – and to whom – the word has been applied. We use it so freely these days that many news...
View ArticleDoes Law Allow Enslavement, Involuntary Servitude, & Murder by Embryonic...
The capacity of a cadre of legislators and judges to create two new classes of citizens, empowering one of’em—putatively on behalf of the other—to commit crimes as if above the law, in ways that...
View ArticleJan 18, 2022 - SCOTUS to hear oral arguments about flying religious flags at...
Authorized by Congress in 1992, Religious Freedom Day is recognized every January 16th by an annual presidential proclamation commemorating the enactment of the Virginia Statute for Religious...
View ArticleIn His Desire to Overturn Roe, Justice Alito Embraces Religious Supremacy
It has been less than a week since the draft of Associate Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked. It is a proposed decision and holding that is often pedantic,...
View ArticleUn-American: overturning Roe violates religious liberty
It’s been a tough week. I’m so angry I can hardly think straight. But it’s time to put this out there. Let’s understand that besides the horrific reckless endangerment of so many people’s lives and...
View ArticleComment on Archbishop Cordileone bans House Speaker Pelosi’s on her...
First some caveats: I am not a Roman Catholic; I just voted again for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.Calif) as my Representative; I support a woman’s right to an abortion; and I am certainly not a...
View ArticleSupreme Court takes a hatchet to the Constitution, again
The U.S. Supreme Court did not throw out abortion rights, gut the Clean Air Act, or curtail states’ rights to prevent gun violence in decisions issued Thursday. It didn’t do any of those things—yet—but...
View ArticleAbortion and the Constitution (Running this weekend in newspapers in my very...
The Constitution doesn’t say anything about abortion. But the Constitution does say that, when it comes to the religious views of American citizens, each person has the right to live in accordance with...
View ArticleThe door between church and state is now as unlocked as schools in Uvalde
No one even knew he was praying until he made it a large public display. Coach Joseph Kennedy was placed on leave in 2015 from Bremerton High, a public school, when he led midfield prayers after games...
View ArticleThe GOP Coup has happened. We ain't seen nothin' yet.
No, not the coup Trump and the Republican Party attempted on January 6, 2021. (Which is still ongoing. They lost that battle but their war on democracy is not over.) It’s been called autogolpe for...
View ArticleSotomayor brings receipts against the radical Supreme Court majority attacks...
The six extremist justices on the Supreme Court furthered their coup over Congress, the White House, and the Constitution on Monday, and continued their hatchet job on the Establishment Clause of the...
View ArticleThe need for secular elected officials has never been greater!
In the wake of anti-Freedom *From* Religious rulings in the cases of Kennedy vs. Bremerton School District (high school football coach leading prayer on the football field) and Carson v. Makin (forcing...
View ArticleOur Best Argument for Abortion Rights ... I think
I believe we’re all missing something very important here, although I can’t say this with much confidence. I have been arguing that a ban on elective abortion is unconstitutional since it violates the...
View ArticleACM: Post-Roe struggle over Abortion Rights ... Whither Democracy in the US?
The overturn of Roe vs Wade and Casey vs Planned Parenthood by the Supreme Court of the US (SCOTUS) on 24th of June 2022 had several immediate effects. The elimination of a 50 year old civil right by a...
View ArticleI am the only openly secular candidate for the Virginia General Assembly. AMA.
This time last year, I was a candidate for Chesapeake Public School Board. I wrote an article last year about the need for more secular elected officials in our country. Sadly, not much has changed...
View ArticleBusting MAGA Myths: America is not and has never been a Christian Nation
Reposted from My SubstackxxYouTube VideoMAGA: What we’re seeing is an awakening in this country, a return to Godly principles, Godly morality, we have no more tolerance, tolerance is not a virtue in...
View ArticleNext up for Leonard Leo: Making your kid’s public school Christian
If Catholic fundamentalist and dark-money operative Leonard Leo has his way, the conservative Supreme Court he engineered will soon overturn 150 years of precedent and finish demolishing the First...
View ArticleAli Velshi warns of the fringe Seven Mountains doctrine going Mainstream,...
——Imagine my surprise to see this eye-opening story this morning, confirming my serious concerns about the secret agenda of the newly “chosen” Speaker, Mike Johnson. This ‘unspoken and unchallenged’...
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