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MARCH 1, 2021 BY FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION By Barbara AlvarezAnne Nicol Gaylor Reproductive Rights InternFreedom From Religion Foundation The Freedom From Religion Foundation applauds a recent move by the New Mexico Legislature to annul a 1969 state statute criminalizing abortion. On Friday, Feb. 26, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed into law Senate Bill 10, […]
BY HEMANT MEHTA NOVEMBER 2, 2020 We know there’s a gender wage gap: Women make less money than men, even when doing the same kind of work. The exact amount is up for debate, depending on how you want to parse it. Explanations for the gap include how women go into different lines of work, how […]
OCTOBER 2, 2020 BY FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION Yes, we’ve been recently busy with Amy Coney Barrett here at the Freedom From Religion Foundation, but, no, we haven’t let her monopolize our attention. We correctly guessed that Barrett would be President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee and our Strategic Response Team had an incisive dissection of her […]
BY BETH STONEBURNER SEPTEMBER 26, 2020 Christian-turned-atheist Patheos blogger Libby Anne wrote an eye-opening blog post this week on why evangelicals don’t do opposite-sex friendships. The inspiration came from the following tweet: Says Libby Anne: In evangelical churches, any cross-gender relationship is always, always, always portrayed as dangerous. The moment a teenage girl and boy get friendly, adults in the congregation start […]
BY HEMANT MEHTA SEPTEMBER 2, 2020 Right-wing radio host Jesse Lee Peterson, who has said that the world needs “more white babies,” praised “white power,” and called the late Rep. John Lewis “evil,” wants you to know he hates women, too. During his show yesterday, Peterson urged men to avoid marrying educated women because they won’t be homemakers… and you would have […]
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020 BY CAPTAIN CASSIDY Hello and welcome! A few months ago, we talked about evangelicals’ reckoning with mental illness in their ranks. One flavor of Christianity seems especially vulnerable to this problem, too: bro-dude Christians. Today, let me show you what bro-dude Christianity is — and how it’s made toxic Christianity even worse. (Disclaimer: Today, we discuss toxic Christianity. Obviously, quite a […]
BY VAL WILDE AUGUST 31, 2020 The Protestant Lutheran Church of Sweden made history last month when the numbers came in: For the first time in history, the scales have tipped in favor of a female priesthood. The numbers are extremely close: 50.1% of the church’s priests are women, 49.9% men. In fact, after accounting for […]
JULY 7, 2020 BY CAPTAIN CASSIDY Hi and welcome back! Lately, a huge controversy hit social media when J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter books, offered a series of her own hot takes on transgender people. Some of what she said sounded very much like the stuff we see out of toxic Christians, so today […]