Kathleen Johnson, Military Director, American Atheists, who is deployed right now in Iraq, sent this note talking about a disturbing incident that took place at Forward Operating Base in Iraq recently. An Army Major attend a meeting of the Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers, said he was a Freethinker then used his rank to shut the meeting down and threaten the attendees with punishment.
Category: Religious Intolerance
Three protesters disrupted a prayer by a Hindu chaplain Thursday at the opening of a US Senate hearing, calling it an abomination and shouting slogans about Jesus Christ.
The first court challenge to President Bush’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives ended on a technicality according to the US Supreme Court. It said that since the funding wasn’t from Congress then the public have no standing to challenge it.
Conservative Internet news site WorldNetDaily posted a story yesterday about some teachers in Albemarle School District in Virginia, who are refusing orders from the administration to pass out adverts for the children’s summer camp called Camp Quest. The camp is the first summer camp that caters to atheists, humanists, and freethinkers. This isn’t the first time the school district has been in trouble for their lack of equal access. A flyer for a Unitarian Universalist holiday program was not passed out. A lawsuit was filed and the school district lost.
The Seventh-day Adventists handed out booklets titled “Ten Commandments Twice Removed.” on Daley Plaza in Chicago on Friday. They are one of the few Christian sects that support separation of church and state.