Former Baptist pastor gets 10 years for molestation FRANKLIN, Ind. (ABP) — A former Southern Baptist pastor in central Indiana has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for molesting a 15-year-old church member in a relationship that began with him counseling the girl because she was not getting along with her mother. Daniel Moore, [...]

Religious right selfishly turns boy into pawn in gay-adoption battle The judge’s ruling said exactly what most people would want to hear in an adoption case. It said that the 1-year-old boy who had been living with his foster parents was “happy and thriving” — and that a permanent adoption made perfect sense. It should [...]

LAPD Ends Relationship with Boy Scouts, Cites Anti-Gay Policy A youth program associated with the Los Angeles Police Department will no longer be affiliated with the Boy Scouts of America, due to the BSA’s policy of excluding gays, atheists, and agnostics. The Explorer’s Program, which the Boy Scouts created in 1949, has served since 1962 [...]

Richard Dawkins launches children’s summer camp for atheists The evolutionary biologist and author of The God Delusion, who stepped down from his post at Oxford University last year, has subsidised the five-day camp in Somerset. Camp-goers will be given lessons in rational scepticism, as well as sessions in moral philosophy and evolutionary biology. There will [...]

Young Americans Losing Their Religion New research shows young Americans are dramatically less likely to go to church — or to participate in any form of organized religion — than their parents and grandparents. “It’s a huge change,” says Harvard University professor Robert Putnam, who conducted the research. Historically, the percentage of Americans who said [...]

Tel Aviv man has 32 women and 89 children A Tel Aviv man in his late fifties is living with 32 women with whom he has fathered 89 children, an Israeli television station revealed last week. The women are subject to strict discipline, but say that they are all living with Goel Ratzon by their [...]

CBS Outdoor: Keep Atheism Away from Schools, Churches Advertising companies that rent space on billboards may often have rules about not allowing certain ads (like those promoting alcohol) in the vicinity of schools. Who knew, though, that education about atheism, freethought, and church-state separation are equivalent to selling alcohol? That’s apparently the position of CBS [...]

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