Andy Welfle
Yay for the SCA!
Last week, a first happened for secular values in American politics. The Secular Coalition for America (as well as other key members in the secular movement) met with White House administration for a policy briefing. While this happens frequently for religious and faith-based organizations, this is the first time a secular policy meeting was held [...]
Come to our blogger training!
[ February 28, 2010; 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm. 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm. 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm. ] Hello! I will be offering a 1-1.5 hour workshop/refresher course at the Main Library this Sunday, Feb. 28 at 1:30. It will be held in the Business & Technology conference room on the 2nd floor. See below for a Google Map.
This is perfect for:
Those interested in blogging for Freethought Fort Wayne
Bloggers who need a refresher [...]
Open Forum Friday: There’s a boy in the girls’ room!
Remember this book? It didn’t have anything to do with transgenderism, but it was the first image to come up when I typed “boy in the girl’s room” into Google Image Search.
This Week’s Topic
This is a topic that should have been covered more by us and by local human rights organizations. I only [...]
The Lancet retracts article, conspiracy against anti-vaxxers
That headline, of course, is a joke, but I’m sure some anti-vaccination advocates will see it as a conspiracy.
I am referring, of course, to news that The Lancet, a prominent British medical journal, retracted a 1998 article by Dr. Andrew Wakefield erroneously suggesting a potential link between autism, and the Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccine
They retracted [...]
Open Forum Friday: Freethought Fort Wayne in the future
This Week’s Topic
I was going to talk about atheism and skepticism, and if one requires another, but I think I’ll wait until next week. It is a good topic, and I want to cite a few more articles before I open it to the floor. This week’s topic is one we’ve discussed before, but is [...]
Open Forum Friday: It’s really, really open
This Week’s Topic
I am enjoying a week off of work on my Staycation, and I’m afraid I don’t have anything prepared. So when I say this is an open forum, I mean it’s open.
So, uh, what do you want to talk about?
Open Forum Friday Ground Rules
Anything goes, as long as you do not become verbally [...]
Open Forum Friday: Catholic Extortion
This Week’s Topic
This relates to some news that’s kinda old, and I’m surprised no one’s covered it on this blog yet. But it is a really interesting development. I am referring, of course, to the recent announcement by the Catholic archdiocese of Washington, DC, that unless the city changes a proposed law that would allow [...]
Open Forum Friday: The Fort Hood Shootings
This Week’s Topic
(Written by Jake!)
Welcome to the next edition of our popular and sometimes controversial series Open Forum Friday.
This week we continue the trend by asking for your thoughts about The Fort Hood, Texas military base killings purportedly committed by Major Nidal Malik Hasan, US Army.
This horrific event raises lots of questions. We’ve yet to [...]
Obama administration values feel-good religionism over free speech
A good friend just sent me an article about an op-ed the talented Jonathan Turley wrote for USA Today (which is generally a little less talented, journalistically speaking, but that’s a different post). He discussed that the Obama administration helped pass the UN resolution we discussed in March which would recognize exceptions to free speech [...]
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