Politics
WTF is wrong with Utah?
*****For more information on this topic and other issues of ‘Women and Freethought’ tune in to tonights live Dial-an-Atheist for a conversation between Freethought Fort Wayne’s own Rae Surface and Ashley Martin, Vice President of Campus Atheists and Agnostics of IPFW. The show can be seen tonight at 7pm on local access tv (Comcast 57, [...]
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 [...]
The proposed FFW 1st Amendment
The governing committee meeting went well last night. We got a lot done in 3 hours. I think we are slowly but surely getting better at the business aspect. It’s all pretty much new to me, but I’m surprised to find much of the business aspects to be interesting. And entertaining. We had a good [...]
UPDATE: Uganda, Maddow, and Praying Away the Gay
MSNBC has done a great public service by letting the people at the Rachel Maddow Show practice actual journalism.
This video is important because it shows just how dangerous pseudoscience (or in layman’s terms, outright quackery) really is. Richard Cohen has written a book that has had the effect of igniting an attempted genocide of gays, [...]
Palin sure left Indiana in a hurry!
According to beltwayblips, Sarah Palin left around 300 of her fans without a much anticipated autograph of her new book-looking thingy in Noblesville, Indiana of all places. New york or another bloody liberal state I can see, but Indiana should be a red enough state to be worthy enough for her to get a little [...]
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 [...]
Nuclear Countdown
Tehran’s running down the clock. To assume that they’re not a threat to the region or the world is ludicrous. Totalitarian regimes are by their very nature erratic. One could assume that they’re enriching uranium for energy use. It is, after all, every countries right to develop their own natural resources. Except the country in [...]
University students celebrate blasphemy
This Wednesday, the 30th of September, we at the Campus Atheists and Agnostics of IPFW (Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne) will be having our first Blasphemy Day International celebration. We’re joining other secular groups, including the Center for Inquiry, in protesting the United Nations Human Rights Council’s decision to adopt a non-binding resolution that indicated [...]
Freethought + Free Markets?
While there is no predetermined political affiliation for freethinkers, I’ve noticed that many, if not most, identify as either liberal (both socially and fiscally) or libertarian (socially liberal, fiscally conservative). Michael Shermer falls into the latter category, and has published several pieces recently extolling the virtues of free market capitalism and the private sector.
I’ve read [...]
The Coming Obacalypse
Since National Health Care seems to be the topic of the moment, I thought I would weigh-in. Rae has already posted, her take on health care, so here’s mine.
Like Rae I don’t think National Health care is a Free Thought issue per se mostly because the merits of having a government-mandated/subsidized health care system really [...]
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