2017-07-11 14:14
A look at most of the major news headlines about Christianity often paints its followers as ultraconservative people who are against certain minority groups, such as refugees and the LGBT co… Read More
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2017-06-23 13:51
Donald Trump shocked the world this November as he defied political analysts and achieved the required number of electoral votes to become the president of the United States. Even people wit… Read More
2017-06-09 16:26
Dr. Paul de Vries
Dr. Paul de Vries, a columnist at The Christian Post, tries to make an argument that the Secular Left and Radical Islam have the same aims even if they go about it in diffe… Read More
2017-03-16 15:00
A recent post-election poll showed that white evangelical Christians are way outside the views of a majority of Americans on a lot of issues. For people interested in keeping the church and… Read More
2017-02-27 18:03
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has ties to shadowy religious conservative group
The Washington Post reported on a ‘secret’ conservative think-tank that has for years wanted to e… Read More
2017-02-02 19:49
During remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast, President Trump said he wanted to ‘totally destroy the Johnson Amendment’. The amendment is a rule that prohibits churches from g… Read More
2017-02-01 16:55
Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch with President Trump
It doesn’t take much research or ‘soul searching’ to know that any Supreme Court nominee by President Trump would NO… Read More
2016-12-22 17:27
A satanic pentagram erected by atheist Preston Smith lies damaged in Boca Raton’s Sanborn Square, Fla. on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016
Every Holiday season is the same thing. We are told by… Read More
2016-10-24 16:43
Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump, even using causal values, is a terrible person. He has been accused of groping women, admitted to being a pervert, has been married several t… Read More
2016-09-13 17:00
If you are in the least bit interested in a secular government that doesn’t cheerlead for any religion, that upholds the 1st amendment, and acknowledges that nonbelievers are citizens… Read More
2016-08-21 19:38
The Secular Coalition for America (SCA) released its 2016 Presidential Voter Guides on Thursday August 18th. It consisted of eight areas of concern for the secular community and what each ca… Read More
2016-08-02 18:15
President Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1950s as a US Senator
Every election cycle, Secular Americans have to endure slimy pandering to the religious right by candidates looking to get elected to… Read More
2016-06-30 17:19
Serial Liar Todd Starnes
Religious conservative and FOX news contributor Todd Starnes wrote on June 29th that the recently released US House Republican’s Benghazi report noted that mem… Read More
2016-06-20 17:00
Sarah Fowler – member of the Ohio State Board of Education from District 7
The Ohio State Board of Education, although not as bad as some state boards like in Kansas, has had it share… Read More
2016-06-16 18:42
Obvious violations of the first amendment in public schools can include a sign with an obvious religious message, a teacher proselytizing, or a school promoted event sponsored by a religious… Read More
2016-05-13 17:00
Former Ohio Governor George Voinovich poses in 1998 with the state seal and motto he had installed at the Statehouse
While cleaning out some old files, I came across a 1998 newspaper clippin… Read More
2016-05-06 17:14
Genoa (OH) High School Principal Cari Buehler
This week the Genoa Ohio Local Schools removed an obvious religious sign posted in the High School that demanded the viewer to ‘Follow Chr… Read More
2016-04-26 17:35
Religious Message wall sign similar to one seen in Genoa OH High School
While watching local TV news on March 21st, during a story about a Genoa Ohio high school student who died in a traffi… Read More
2016-04-16 16:58
Mathew Staver, face of the extremist religious group Liberty Counsel
If you thought there have been a recent rash of laws targeting the use of restrooms by trans people and also against LGBT… Read More
2016-03-22 16:43
Ohio House of Represenatives in session. Photo by Joshua Rothaas Used with permission.
In Ohio, Substitute HB 425, also known as the Ohio Student Religious Liberties Act seems to codify righ… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
This week a group called 'Ask a Muslim' put up a billboard on the North side of Columbus that stated 'Jesus is Muslim'. Of course some evangelical Christians got the vapors. They plan on hol… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
The Hobby Lobby religious exemption to covering contraception case will be heard in the US Supreme Court starting on Tuesday. If corporations are given a right to religious freedom there is… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Those of us who are concerned about and study separation of church and state issues, here in the US, know that complaints by Christians about religious persecution are, for the most part, fi… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Some elections are decided based on how elected officials handle services like plowing snow. How would taxpayers feel if their local government passed an ordinance to plow the parking lots o… Read More
2016-02-21 20:14
On February 10th I attended Secular Summit 4.0 at the Ohio State House in Columbus. It was hosted by CFI NE Ohio. It was the second lobby day I attended and this time I tried to as prepared… Read More
2016-02-04 19:28
President Obama visiting Baltimore mosque 2/3/2016
On Wednesday (2/3/2016), President Obama visited a mosque for the first time while in office. I applaud his visit and his remarks against b… Read More
2016-01-30 18:00
Richmond, Va Mayor Dwight C. Jones
Richmond, Virginia Mayor Dwight C. Jones has a problem. According to news reports, it seems that work done for the church he heads was done by vendors and… Read More
2016-01-27 18:51
Pastor B.J. Van Aman of the Pickerington Baptist Temple, Rep. Tim Schaffer, R-Lancaster, and Ohio House Speaker Cliff Rosenberger, R-Clarksville with head bowed in prayer in the Ohio House o… Read More
2016-01-22 19:21
‘Reverend’ Senator Ted Cruz
The next act of religious conservatives against same-sex marriage, after the US Supreme Court decision, included claiming ‘religious freedom&rsq&hell…Read More
2016-01-15 19:10
Michael Newdow
Michael Newdow has a history of lawsuits to support church and state separation. After addressing the phrase ‘Under God’ in the Pledge of Allegiance, Newdow recent… Read More
2016-01-03 18:00
Justice Antonin Scalia
About once a year or so, Justice Antonin Scalia gets in front of a Catholic school assembly and tells the students that there is no constitutional tradition that says… Read More
2015-12-23 18:34
FFRF Display that scared Gov. Abbott
It didn’t take long for Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a radical Christian, to subjectively decide what is covered under the 1st amendment and what is… Read More
2015-12-17 20:58
Another Texas city endorsed Nativity scene in 2014
Most Christmas seasons I’ve written blog posts about some religious freedom legal case involving a local or state government preferen… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Ohio Governor John Kasich, who is trying to run for President, gave a so-called national security strategy speech at The National Press Club on November 17th. What is Kasich's strategy? Chri… Read More
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