I forwarded a link to my post on Maggie Gallagher’s interview with NPR to the contact e-mail provided on the National Organization for Marriage.  In the e-mail I asked if they had any comment on the apparent disconnect between their mission of keeping civil rights from a minority group and their claims that they are […]

I was listening to the podcast of NPR’s Day to Day from last Friday, just after the gay marriage ban passed.  They brought on several people to talk about the decision, but the most interesting for me was Maggie Gallagher, President of National Organization for Marriage.  This is one of the main groups responsible for […]

There is some most excellent news out of California today for those who believe in equal rights under the law for everyone. The California Supreme Court struck down a law banning gay marriage in the state, meaning that same sex couples are now free to marry as they please with full recognition under the […]

I attended a funeral today for a great great aunt who was a devoted churchgoer for all of her 96 years.  As a result the ceremony was highly religious with lots of pauses for prayer.
When they asked for people to bow their heads in prayer I simply assumed my non-theist prayer stance: hands clasped and […]

I came across this blog post about a bar in Georgia selling racist pictures that equate Barack Obama with Curious George the monkey.  I was shocked until I scrolled through the post and saw that this was being sold in none other than Cobb county.  That’s Cobb “Our school board is putting stickers on science […]

Scientists in Britain have started creating genetically modified embryos to use for research purposes. It appears that they’re only using embryos that were discarded from fertility clinics, are destroying the embryos after five days, and won’t be implanting any of these genetically modified embryos into a uterus where it could potentially grow up to […]

Shock!  I almost found myself agreeing with a Christian group today, but then they had to go and take things a little too far.  Pro-Decency and Pro-Family organizations are going to hold a conference at the Press Club in D.C. and then go on a peaceful demonstration for a couple of hours in front of […]

After my post concerning the Alabama legislature the site was visited by C. David Parsons, author of a seven-volume textbook called The Quest for Right that claims to finally provide a synthesis of science and the Bible.  Now that I’ve read through his site I’ll have more to say about Quest for Right in future […]

After reading through some of the comments on the most excellent Bad Astronomy blog it appears that the Academic Freedom bill I mentioned in my previous post might have died simply because they’re at the end of their legislative session and all of the leftover junk is just being rushed off the docket.  I’d like […]

The National Center for Science Education is reporting that an effort to get Intelligent Design into the state science curriculum under the guise of academic freedom for teachers has failed. This is definitely a good thing. The Intelligent Design crowd had their asses handed to them in the Dover trial back in 2005, […]