Atheist, Jewish, Catholic, and Muslim groups join to ask SCOTUS to rule on college student free speech case
An ideologically diverse array of groups submitted friend-of-the-court briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court this week that ask it to take a case filed by Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys on behalf of two former More...
Supreme Court to hear humanist lawsuit to remove World War I memorial in Maryland
Where is the line between the separation of church and state? Now the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday said it would review a lower-court ruling that a 93-year-old cross on public land that memorializes a Maryland More...
Colorado judge rules against school which promoted FCA mission trip as ‘proselytizing’
A federal district court in Colorado ruled that a public school district’s fundraising for and promotion of a Fellowship of Christian Athletes mission trip to Guatemala violated the Establishment Clause of the More...
Shari Webber-Dunn sues Kansas prison with atheists AHA over ‘Christian propaganda’
Shari Webber-Dunn, an inmate serving a murder charge in Kansas, said her First Amendment rights were violated by “Christian propaganda” imposed by the all-female prison. Webber-Dunn is suing department More...
Florida: Atheists rejoice after judge agrees that Bayview Cross in Pensacola must be removed
Atheists are celebrating their presumed success at getting a cross removed from a public park in Pensacola, Florida, as noted by Fox News’ Todd Starnes. “I am aware that there is a lot of support in Pensacola More...
Air Force General Craig Olson attacked over faith, ‘should be court martialed’
A two-star general has come under fire from an outside anti–religious-liberty group for speaking openly of his faith. Major General Craig Olson of Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts spoke at a National Day More...
School rules saying ‘God Bless You’ is not unconstitutional
The Florida high school that told a student not to say “God bless America” during morning announcements after a threat from the American Humanist Association. The district now stands with the student, protecting More...
New Jersey: Teen, Samantha Jones, leads movement, beats atheist lawsuit over pledge
A New Jersey judge has thrown out an atheist lawsuit which argued that “under God” is a violation of the state’s constitution, ending activists’ latest attempt to remove the decades-old wording from the More...
Atheists release their ‘Ten Commandments’ which include God
An inclusion of the Being that they don’t believe exists is just one of the oddities in the secular Ten Commandments constructed by Rethink in association with the Richard Dawkins foundation. From the press More...
‘Mythbusters’ Adam Savage and ‘Atheist Mind Humanist Heart’ author seek Ten Commandments ‘alternative’
The authors of a new book announce the launch of The ReThink Prize: a competition to publicly crowdsource a modern alternative to the Ten Commandments, with prizes totaling $10,000. Prominent thought leaders on More...
Georgia high school statue with Biblical verses unconstitutional says atheists, humanists
A Georgia high school is under attack by an atheist group over a statue which has two Biblical verses inscribed on it and his touched by the football team, claiming this is a violation of the constitution. Both More...
Atheists target ‘under God’ in Pledge of Alliegiance with ‘Don’t Say the Pledge’ campaign
An atheist group is launching a nationwide campaign aimed at removing the words “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance. The American Humanist Association announced the launch of the “Don’t Say the Pledge” More...
Air Force rejects reenlistment for atheist airmen for refusing ‘so help me God’ oath
An atheist airman at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada was denied reenlistment last month for refusing to take an oath containing “so help me God,” the American Humanist Association said as the group investigates More...
Georgia high school football team warned of lawsuit if they don’t stop praying, using scriptures
A high school football team is under fire from the American Humanist Association’s Appignani Humanist Legal Center who say that prayer and Bible scriptures reportedly being shared with players and included on More...
New Jersey lawsuit seeks to ban pledge due to ‘under God’ phrases
The American Humanist Association is suing a New Jersey school district for its recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public classrooms. The issue at hand is the phrase “under God” in the pledge. A More...
