Catholic Church bans sex ed in public schools

Different thoughts:I. A Christian conservative who runs one of the largest right-wing websites in America believes that the 10 Commandments were bannished from churches and syngogues.He wrote this in support of 10 Commandments dislays on governmental property, in order to...

Christian nationalist legislator tells mother her child is a fool

I wish I wasn't writing this column, but alas, theocracy and Christian nationalism never sleeps. In the state of North Carolina there is a bill, with considerable Republican support, to enact a state church. The idea behind this bill is that the First Amendment's,...

TN rep. believes gays are "the biggest bullies" in the world

President Obama just attended the National Prayer Breakfast. It is a breakfast, with prayer, attended by members of Congress and the president, since the 1950s. I was thinking how awesome it would be for President Obama to attend a convention of the American Humanist...

Public Education: A Sober Reality

On a recent visit to one of Tampa Bay's public schools just to see first hand what it is like to revisit a time that shaped the person I was to become only to find out a totally different and foreign world really perplexes me. First impressions they say are worth a thousand...

Christian pretends to be gay for a year, see what happens

Timothy Kurek is a young man from Nashville. He grew up in a very religious Christian fundamentalist type home. A home where gays were despised or demonized. He decided to spend a year, being gay. He didn't become gay as did a young man in England who had a stroke did. He...

Lies about same sex marriage and cross on a football helmet

In a month, state of Washington voters will approve marriage equality for gays and lesbians in that state. Well, Catholic Bishop Joseph Tyson wrote a statement urging Washington Catholics to remember to take marching orders from the Catholic Church. Bishop Tyson wrote about...

Guidance counselor fired for sexy lingerie pictures

Tiffany Webb worked as a guidance counselor for a New York City public school. Well, worked is the key word, because she doesn't anymore because she was fired. Fired for something she did legally, 17 years ago. See, when she was younger and barely out of her teens she did...

Public school football coach abuses his authority to win converts

If you have students in the local public school, do you want him or her taken to a local mosque to listen to the Quran by the government? I am guessing probably not. You would probably be mad if some coach, because of his/her Islmaic religious beliefs, thought it was O.K. to...

Christian right-wingers once again trying to impose religion

There are a few different versions of the 10 Commandments, but there is one that most Americans, be they Christians or not, are familiar. It is the one that tells listeners to have no other gods, honor the sabbath, not use that god's name in vain, or make graven images. While...

The march of theocracy is never ending in our secular republic

A conservative on the radio I was listening to, deplored "god" being kicked out of the public schools. She then, within 10 seconds stated that schools should focus on academic things, instead of things such as sexual education. Hmmm, she seemed not to notice that both...

Gay rights t-shirts banned by schools

Pro gay t-shirts are being banned and censored in schools. One shirt, Jesus is not a homophobe, was banned in a school in Ohio because the student, Maverick Couch, was told it was "indecent and sexual in nature" by the school principal. So, any expression of gay rights, is...

Gay rights t-shirts banned by schools, violation of free speech

Pro gay t-shirts are being banned and censored in schools. One shirt with the text, Jesus is not a homophobe, was banned in a school in Ohio because the student, Maverick Couch, was told it was "indecent and sexual in nature" by the school principal. So, any expression of gay...