The weekly report on the SPI Fellows by Julie Esris Taslima Nasreen Writer, feminist, religious critic, and SPI Fellow Taslima Nasreen fled Bangladesh more than twenty years ago to escape the extremists who threatened to kill her for criticizing [...]
The weekly report on research and demographics of the secular movement by Julie Esris This week Kansas governor Sam Brownback signed a bill into law that would severely restrict second trimester abortions. More specifically, the law prohibits the dilation and [...]
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from Cross Examined, by Bob Seidensticker reprinted with permission ItÔÇÖs easy to believe passionately in the rightness of our moral position. WhatÔÇÖs often ignored is the importance of being in the right side of history. Same-sex marriage is one example [...]
The weekly update on SPI coalition members by Julie Esris SPI coalition member The Bertrand Russell Society will hold its annual meeting at Dublin, Ireland on June 5-7, 2015. This year's keynote speaker will be SPI Fellow A. C. Grayling. Find out [...]
The weekly update on SPI Fellows by Julie Esris It's common to lament that we are living in a more violent world than ever, but evolutionary psychologist and SPI Fellow Steven Pinker would beg to differ. Pinker recently spoke at the [...]
The weekly report on the demographics of secularism by Julie Esris America is among the LEAST religiously restrictive nations. This week Indiana Governor Mike Pence passed a ÔÇ£religious freedom restorationÔÇØ law that has generated a great deal of [...]
The weekly report on US and World public policy by Edwina Rogers Second Secularist Hacked to Death in Bangladesh Religious students have hacked to death another critic of Islam, the second such tragedy to be carried out this year. Washikur [...]
Indiana's recent "religious freedom" law has major businesses and consumers threatening or flat-out insisting not to do business in the state. Despite existing laws in other states that are somewhat similar, Indiana's law is seen as further reaching in discrimination against [...]
Three men in Myanmar have received two and a half years in prison for publishing a photo to Facebook. The offending photo, which was an advertisement for cheap drinks at a bar, is so ridiculous in nature that Myanmar's government must [...]
