Dan Arel's Blog, page 39

Ohio elementary school warned to end practice of holding events at local church

The Freedom From Religion Foundation sent a letter to the Covedale Elementary School in Ohio after I made them aware of the fact the school was holding the kindergarten graduation and sixth-grade award ceremony next door at a local church.

North Carolina students will be allowed to assault trans peers for using ‘wrong’ bathroom

A school board in North Carolina has ruled that students will be allowed to carry pepper spray to protect themselves from transgender students who they deem are using the "wrong bathroom."

Planned Parenthood shooter is found unfit for trial

Robert Dear, who last November opened fire on a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood, will be treated at a state psychiatric hospital and may eventually be tried if his mental health improves.

Jon Stewart questions Donald Trump’s presidential eligibility because he is a ‘man-baby’

In a recent interview with The Axe Files podcast Jon Stweart questioned Donald Trumps legal eligibility to be elected president.

Billboard companies unwilling to display ‘Genocide and Incest’ Ark Encounter ads

In a press release from the Tri-State Freethinkers, they have announced that as of right now, they have no ad companies willing to display their Genocide and Incest ads they raised money for in protest of Ken Ham's Ark Encounter.

Budweiser changes name to ‘America’ and uses E Pluribus Unum as motto

Budweiser has a new name, America, and a new motto, and it's not In God We Trust...

Secularists, please stop quoting the Treaty of Tripoli

I’m writing today to beseech my fellow secularists with a simple request: please, for the love of god (in the colloquial sense), stop quoting the Treaty of Tripoli.

48% of Republicans oppose anti-transgender bathroom laws

According to a CNN/ORC poll, the majority of American's do not support anti-transgender bathroom laws such as the one that recently passed in North Carolina.

Honor for the Afterlife

CNN reports that a 15-year-old Pakistani girl, after helping a neighbor and her boyfriend elope, was "dragged from her home, injected with sedatives, strangled, tied up in a van, and then burned". The murder was ordered by a tribal council, called a "Jirga," and it was carried out by members of said council. 14 people, including the victim's mother, have been arrested.

Freethought Equality Fund clarifies the endorsement of Jamie Raskin

Speckhardt said he has sat down with Raskin, and assured me that Raskin gave his word he is "most definitely a humanist as defined by the American Humanist Association."