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• The distorted history of Steve Kellmeyer

  Published: August 20, 2007, 2:41 am

  Tags: Lies, Media, Myths, Politics, Religious Intolerance, Church State, Cnn, History, Religious Right, Secular Humanism, Steve Kellmeyer

  I have written about Steve Kellmeyer, who posts on the Renew America website, before. A previous post took him to task for claiming that secular humanism abuses women. In his recent article CNN: God's gift to religion Kellmeyer tries once again to slander secular humanism. The thrust of the... [[Click on the title to visit Secular Left

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• Founding Fathers respond to Sali

  Published: August 11, 2007, 10:55 am

  Tags: Entanglement, Lies, Politics, Positive, Religious Intolerance, Bill Sali, Church State, Congress, Founding Fathers, Idaho, Prayer, Religious Liberty, Religious Test

  In my last post I mentioned the ignorant comments made by Representative Bill Sali (R-Idaho) concerning Hindu prayer being offered in the Senate and a Muslim member of the House of Representatives. In his comments he said: "We have not only a Hindu prayer being offered in the Senate, we have a... [[Click on the title to visit Secular Left

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• Bill Sali makes a stupid comment

  Published: August 10, 2007, 5:59 pm

  Tags: Entanglement, Lies, Politics, Religious Intolerance, Bill Sali, Church State, Congress, Idaho, Prayer, Religious Liberty, Religious Test

  Back on July 12th I posted about a disruption in a US Senate hearing when a Hindu prayer was offered. (see: Hindu prayer in US Senate draws protesters) Well of course a member of the House, Representative Bill Sali (R-Idaho), believes the prayer should never have been offered. "We have not only a... [[Click on the title to visit Secular

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• Army Major disrupts Atheist meeting in Iraq - threatens court martial

  Published: August 5, 2007, 5:58 pm

  Tags: Entanglement, Politics, Religious Intolerance, Atheist Persecution, Church State, Iraq, Military Association Of Atheists Freethinkers, Us Army

  Kathleen Johnson, Military Director, American Atheists, who is deployed right now in Iraq, sent this note talking about a disturbing incident that took place at Forward Operating Base in Iraq recently. Here is her report: Thought you'd be interested in this report of the first-ever meeting of... [[Click on the title to visit Secular Left for

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• Hindu prayer in US Senate draws protesters

  Published: July 12, 2007, 5:22 pm

  Tags: Entanglement, Politics, Religious Intolerance, Church State, Congress, Intolerance, Prayer, Us Senate

  talk a good game about religious tolerance until they are asked to do it for other beliefs: Hindu prayer in the Senate draws protesters WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Three protesters disrupted a prayer by a Hindu chaplain Thursday at the opening... [[Click on the title to visit Secular Left for the full version of this article]]

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• White House Religious Office Wins on Technicality

  Published: June 26, 2007, 12:32 am

  Tags: Courts, Entanglement, Groups, Politics, Religious Intolerance, Church State, Faith Based Initiatives, Freedom From Religion, Hein V Freedom From Religion, Office Of Faith Based Community Initiatives, President Bush, Us Supreme Court

  The first court challenge to President Bush's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives ended on a technicality according to the US Supreme Court. It said that since the funding wasn't from Congress then the public have no standing to challenge it. The case is named Hein v. Freedom from... [[Click on the title to visit Secular Left for

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• Some teachers in one Virginia school district reject church state separation

  Published: May 27, 2007, 12:34 am

  Tags: Courts, Entanglement, Groups, Lies, Media, Politics, Religious Intolerance, Church State, Public Schools, Religious Conservative, Religious Liberty, Virginia

  Conservative Internet news site WorldNetDaily posted a story yesterday about some teachers in Albemarle School District in Virginia, who are refusing orders from the administration to pass out adverts for the children's summer camp called Camp Quest. The camp is the first summer camp that caters to... [[Click on the title to visit Secular Left

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• One Christian Sect Wants Church Separate From Government

  Published: May 6, 2007, 10:33 pm

  Tags: Entanglement, Myths, Politics, Positive, Religious Intolerance, 10 Commandments, Religious Right, Seventh Day Adventists, Ten Commandments Commission

  Sunday, May 6th, a group of religious zelots plan on meeting in Washington DC so they can agree to force the 10 Commandments down all our throats. The event in Washington on Sunday is organized by the Ten Commandments Commission, a coalition of synagogues and churches. The alliance has declared... [[Click on the title to visit Secular Left

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• Ken Blackwell: new BFF of Tony Perkins

  Published: September 4, 2007, 9:28 pm

  Tags: Anti Science, Entanglement, Groups, Politics, Religious Intolerance, Family Research Council, J Kenneth Blackwell, Ohio, Tony Perkins

  Liars about Ohio's favorite religious right demagogue J Kenneth Blackwell who has a new gig and word he may try to run for US Senate in 2010. It was from the Talk 2 Action blog. Still under fire for dirty tricks in the 2004 presidential election, Blackwell,... [[Click on the title to visit Secular Left for the full version of this

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• Rod Parsley on Hate Crimes

  Published: September 20, 2007, 1:46 am

  Tags: Entanglement, Lies, Media, Politics, Religious Intolerance, Church State, Congress, Law, Rod Parsley, Us Constitution

  In checking out the stats for this website I have noticed many people come here after doing a search for web pages about Rev. Rod Parsley, who is the pastor of the mega World Harvest Church and host of the show Breakthrough. Since he helped Ken Blackwell lose the Ohio governorship in 2006, Parsley... [[Click on the title to visit Secular Left

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• Christians want Feds to close Islamic school

  Published: October 20, 2007, 1:54 am

  Tags: Groups, Politics, Religious Intolerance, Christian Right, Church State, Hypocrisy, Islam, Islamic Saudi Academy, Religious Liberty, Saudi Arabia, Schools, Virginia, Wahhabi

  showing the hypocrisy of the religious right when it comes to religious liberty. Time and time again they want our government to provide special rights to their Christian religion but when it comes to liberty for all religions and the non-religious, they throw a hissy... [[Click on the title to visit Secular Left for the full version of this

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• How to fail to shut up an Atheist

  Published: October 24, 2007, 4:18 pm

  Tags: Groups, Myths, Politics, Religious Intolerance, Atheism, Challenge, Doug Giles, Holy Bible, Religious Conservative, Religious Liberty

  I saw the title to a blog entry, How to Shut Up an Atheist if You Must, and felt compelled to read it. Being a non-believer I needed to see what if anything the author wrote would actually shut me up. I can rest easy as nothing he commented is new nor will it shut atheists up. Doug Giles starts... [[Click on the title to visit Secular Left

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• Intolerance of Muslims 'compares to Nazi Germany'

  Published: November 12, 2007, 10:37 am

  Tags: Society, Britain, Ethnic And Religious Intolerance, Muslims

  Muslims in Britain are warning that intolerance in the United Kingdom is reaching dangerous levels and they are drawing parallels with Nazi Germany.

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• Christians in Jerusalem want Jews to stop spitting on them

  Published: November 15, 2007, 3:06 pm

  Tags: Religious Intolerance, Israel

  According to Daniel Rossing, former adviser to the Religious Affairs Ministry on Christian affairs and director of a Jerusalem center for Christian-Jewish dialogue, there has been an increase in the number of such incidents recently, "as part of a general atmosphere of lack of tolerance in the country."

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• History teacher sued over alleged anti-Christian comments

  Published: December 17, 2007, 11:10 am

  Tags: Religious Intolerance

  A history teacher has been sued for making what one student calls anti-Christian comments in the classroom. The case has sparked a debate about the role that a teacher's convictions should play in their lessons.

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