Teen Atheist Goes on Rampage Against Religious Freedom | U.S. Constitutional Free Press
Keep it up Jessica! You’re talking sense. I’ve got all kinds of respect for you. Jessica Ahlquist, the 16-year-old behind the prayer mural ban at Cranston High School West in Cranston, Rhode Island, just can’t seem to keep her name out of the news. Months after she won her ACLU-led battle, the teenager continues to [...]
Pagan mom outraged after school gives son Bible
Ginger Strivelli is a different kind of Bible-thumper: The self-proclaimed pagan would like to smack school officials for giving her son access to a copy of the good book. “It’s totally inappropriate they think they can get away with this,” an angry Strivelli told the Asheville Citizen-Times after her fifth-grade son came home with a [...]
Christian theocracy: How Newt Gingrich and the GOP would abolish courts and legislate morality. – Slate Magazine
Is the United States sliding toward theocracy? That’s what Republican presidential candidates have told us for more than a year. Radical Islam, they’ve argued, is on the verge of taking over our country through Sharia law. But this weekend, at an Iowa forum sparsely covered by the press, the candidates made clear that they don’t [...]
Taxpayer Funded ‘Crisis Pregnancy Centers’ Tell Jewish Woman To Convert To Christianity Or Go To Hell
As ThinkProgress has reported, so-called “crisis pregnancy centers” that claim to help women in need are actually established by anti-abortion activists with the sole objective of shaming women out of having abortions. Despite receiving federal and state funding, they have a history of preying on and misleading pregnant women who are seeking abortions and giving them false medical information to dissuade them [...]
Florida elementary school principal memo: ‘The First Amendment was for Christianity, not other religions.’
Clay County, Fla. — Clay Hill Elementary principal Larry Davis is drawing criticisms from across the country. It all started with a school memo. Davis informed his staff that a local pastor would be holding weekly prayer sessions underneath the school’s flag. In the memo to about 40 faculty members, Davis quoted an article from [...]
Public schools are criminal institutions that are ‘teaching the religion of Humanism’ and destroying Christianity in America
Public schools are criminal institutions that are stealing the hearts and minds of children, turning them from God and Jesus Christ, according to the trailer of the newly-released Christian documentary, IndoctriNation - PublicSchools and the Decline of Christianity in America. Back in August, 2010, Colin Gunn took his wife and children on a 3,000 bus tour to make his film. When [...]
Conservatives Want America to be a ‘Christian Nation’ – Here’s What That Would Actually Look Like
Let’s compare Rick Perry’s version of “Christian values” to what the Bible really dictates. Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry, in an appeal to evangelical voters, said “Christian values” and not “a bunch of Washington politicians” should be the touchstone guiding how Americans conduct their lives. … “America is going to be guided by some set [...]
Vacaville Students Lost 25 Points Off Test For Saying ‘Bless You’ To Sneezing Peer
When someone sneezes, it’s common for a person in the vicinity to respond, “bless you.” But for making that remark, students in Steven Cuckovich’s high school health class in Vacaville, Calif. lost 25 points off a test. The next day, someone used the phrase again when a student sneezed, and Will C. Wood High School student [...]
Christian Rapper Preaches at a Public Middle School in South Carolina
Recently, a South Carolina middle school held a worship rally that sought to convert students to Christianity. The worship rally took place during an in-school assembly and featured a Christian rapper, a sermon delivered by a local minister, and volunteers who prayed with students, urging the students to accept Jesus Christ. The school district may [...]
ALL 49 Governors Skip Rick Perry ‘Prayer Rally’
Texas Gov. Rick Perry had big plans for his exclusionary Christian prayer rally this Saturday. He was so proud of the event that he invited all 49 other governors to attend. The RSVPs to “The Response” have been trickling in, and it doesn’t look good. So far, the number of governors who plan to attend [...]
