The Pope states he will resign, but theocracy will continue

Well, The Pope is leaving the papacy. In less than two months, there will be a new pope, and Pope Benedict XVI will go back to being just Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger. Of course, the average Catholic will have as much a say in who will become the next pope, as a secular humanist...

Sarah Silverman's sister detained under sexist Israel tradition

Sarah Silverman is one of my favorite comedians. The television show that she had was one of the funniest things on cable. Well, her sister, the Reform Judaism Rabbi, Susan Silverman, and her 17 year old niece, Halle Silverman, were one of a group of women detained for hours...

How the religious right tell former addicts to hate gays

There are many people in the religious right who had lived, before they supposedly found their deity, a screwed up life. They were alcoholics. They were on drugs. Cocaine, heroin etc. They were depressed and suicidal. Well, once they find religion they judge gays as wicked....

Obama advocates for gay rights in Inauguration speech

President Obama came out strongly for gay rights and gay marriage in his second Inauguration speech. He stated,"Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law. For if we are truly created equal, then surely the...

Death penalty for disobedient children?

Southern Republicans don't believe in evolution or the Big Bang. About 1/2 of the nation doesn't believe in evolution, and unfortunately, Southern Republicans are the most hardcore opponents to believing in it. So it shouldn't be too surprising that Georgian Republican Paul...

GOP congressman Akin again puts foot in mouth and theocrat judge

You might remember Republican Missouri Congressman Todd Akin. The man running for the U.S. Senate from that state, who believes that women who suffer "legitmate rape" don't get pregant, even though there are about 30,000 pregnancies per year to women who have been raped....

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...

Not promoting religion is the same as slavery?

Newt Gingrich,  once again failed Republican presidential nominee stated at a so called Values Voters Summit (ie. anti-gay summit): "One of the major reasons that I am running for president of the United States is the 9th Circuit Court decision in 2002 that ‘one...

Christian theocrats believe they have superior rights than others

Camp Pendleton in California is one of the biggeest U.S. Marines military bases in the U.S. It is also a place recently where former marines put up a large 12 foot tall Christian cross on the top of a hill at the base. This type of act is unfortunately, very, very common....