My wife passed this on to me, knowing how much I detest censorship and people thinking they get to control what others have access to. I think most will agree with us that this is just reprehensible.
In Nicholasville, KY, a library volunteer, Sharon Cook, is taking a stand. What stand, you might ask? She’s deciding, [...]
And they’re trying to enlist Obama’s help in doing it!
Now one thing I like is the Obama camp’s attempt at being transparent and open, something that really needs to be more prevalent in Washington, and therefore they’re publishing details about the groups that they meet with, including what these groups want. Recently they met with [...]
Over the last couple of weeks, there have been busses and signs up worldwide asking people a variety of questions, but mostly to simply live their lives the best way they can without worrying about fantastical gods. Understandably, I suppose, theists have been rather up at arms about it. Imagine, someone questioning their religious faith! [...]
Seeing things that aren’t there is sort of a hallmark of Catholicism, just ask all the loony Catholics who see the Virgin Mary everywhere. In fact, beyond seeing her on windows and toast, apparitions of the Virgin Mary are legendary in places like Lourdes and Medjugorje, indeed, seeing and even talking to Mary is extremely [...]
Fundamentalist Christians are famous for trying to control what you read, banning books is almost an Olympic sport for them, yet this time…
A conservative Christian organization rallied outside of a high school library in Fairfax, Virginia, to protest the decision by the school librarians to reject a book donation that argued against same-sex marriage. The [...]
In the UK, the Birmingham City Council has moved to ban staff from viewing atheist web sites being accessed through their Bluecoat WebFilter software. They specifically permit the viewing of traditional religious sites but now block sites that have to do with “witchcraft or Satanism” and “occult practices, atheistic views, voodoo rituals or any other [...]