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I think we could all use some good news right about now. Fortunately, we just got some. I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, [...]
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Atheists’ Existence Is “Controversial,” “Sparks Public Debate”
March 21st, 2012 
Greta Christina You really can’t get any clearer than this. A bus company in Pennsylvania has rejected an atheist ad. I know. You’ve heard this story before. Moderately newsworthy, but unfortunately not that unusual. This one’s different, though. The content of the ad? The word “Atheists.” Plus, in smaller type, the names and URLs of the sponsoring [...]
Rush Limbaugh, Free Speech, and How Gloria Allred is Being a Jerk
March 12th, 2012 Greta Christina You’ve almost certainly heard about the Rush Limbuagh kerfuffle, in which the talk radio personality spent several days excoriating law student Sandra Fluke for testifying on Capitol Hill about employer-paid health insurance and contraception, and called her (among many, many other things) a “slut” and a “prostitute.” You may not yet have head that the [...]
Birth Control, and Why I’m Proud of Americans Right Now
March 6th, 2012 Greta Christina Three recent news stories. You’ve probably already heard about them ad nauseum, so I’ll just recap them quickly so I can get to my point. Story One: Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a foundation organized to fight breast cancer, recently pulled funding from Planned Parenthood, one of the major providers of breast cancer screenings [...]
High School Atheist Wins Unsurprising Court Case, Gets Death Threats — Why?
February 1st, 2012 Greta Christina This piece was originally published on AlterNet. Note: The college scholarship fund is still being raised for Jessica Ahlquist on the Friendly Atheist blog. Donations of all sizes are welcomed through February 29.) If you take away just two things from the story about atheist high school student Jessica Ahlquist, and the court case she [...]
Why Is an Atheist High School Student Getting Vicious Death Threats?
January 19th, 2012 Greta Christina Her state representative has called the student “evil” and she has been threatened with violence, rape and death. What gives? If you take away just two things from the story about atheist high school student Jessica Ahlquist, and the court case she won last week to have a prayer banner taken out of her public [...]
The Best Parts of the Jessica Ahlquist Court Decision
January 17th, 2012 Greta Christina I just finished a piece for AlterNet about the recent court decision in favor of Jessica Ahlquist, the one ruling that Cranston High School West could not have a freaking prayer banner posted in their auditorium. (I’ll post a link as soon as it goes up.) I’ve been reading the actual court decision — something [...]
Santorum Surges From Behind
January 4th, 2012 Greta Christina Yes, I do sometimes make weird sexual jokes. Not all the time… but sometimes. And tonight is one of those nights. It’s been a good night on Twitter. Jokes about Santorum are coming thick and fast. (Sheesh, even when you try to say something straightforward about the guy, it comes out dirty. There — I [...]
Has the American Cancer Society Been Caught Covering Up a Rejection of Atheist Money?
November 2nd, 2011 Greta Christina The ACS has been stung by accusations of anti-atheist bigotry in its fundraising. Is it making things worse by trying to cover its tracks? “What really hurts in matters of this sort is not the fact that they occur, because overzealous people in campaigns do things that are wrong. What really hurts is if you [...]
Is Atheist Money Too Controversial for the American Cancer Society?
October 31st, 2011 Greta Christina This piece was originally published on AlterNet. My follow-up to this piece is scheduled to be published early this week. I’ll say this clearly, right up front: The American Cancer Society did not explicitly reject a massive donation offer from a non-theistic organization on the basis of them being a non-theistic organization. That was not [...]
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