Atheist Wins Establishment Challenge to Faith-Based Treatment Program

There is an important ruling out of Redding where a federal judge has ruled that California violated the rights of Barry Hazle Jr.,40, by punishing him for refusing to participate in a religious drug treatment program. It is a rare ruling in favor of an atheist under the Establishment Clause.
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Meet Al Barrette, Alaska’s Bible Preaching Wolf Skinner

Al Barrette is the newest proposed member of the Alaska Board of Game, who is facing opposition after a video shows him skinning wolves while quoting the Bible. Barrette seems to suggest that wolf killing is Biblically ordained after Adam and Eve were thrown out of the Garden of Eden.
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Mom’s April Fool’s Joke Results in Son Being Arrested

Michael Kelly, 31, has an interesting defense to make to charges of felony speeding and other crimes in North Carolina: he was the victim of the world’s most stupid April Fool’s joke by his mother. Kelly took police on a 120 mile an hour crash after his mother told him that his 9-year-old son was missing. Now her son is looking at serious jail time. Ha, Ha, thump.
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Wisconsin District Attorney Threatens to Prosecute Any Schools Teaching Sex Ed

Juneau County District Attorney Scott Southworth has reportedly threatened to prosecute schools if they comply with new state sex-education educational directives. He has declared that such courses encourage minors to have sex.

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Date and Switch? School Accused of Holding Fake Prom For Lesbian

Mississippi’s Itawamba Agricultural High School has been roundly condemned for canceling a school prom in order to avoid having lesbian student Constance McMillen appear in a tux with her girlfriend. Now, the school is accused of an astonishing act of duplicity to add to its earlier act of discrimination. McMillen says that she was invited to a prom arranged with officials off school grounds only to find it was just her and seven other revelers, including two learning disabled students. She later says that she learned that the rest of the student body was attending the real prom across town with the knowledge of school officials.

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“The Tree of Life”: Church of the Universe Fights For Recognition of Smoking Pot as a Protected Religious Rite

The Ontario Superior Court is hearing an interesting religious claim this week from the Church of the Universe. The Church is claiming the need to smoke marijuana to commune with God.

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Grade Inflation: Greenspan Insists That He Was Right 70 Percent of the Time

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan insisted that he was “right seventy percent” of the time in his tenure leading up to the economic collapse. On most grading scales that would give him about a C — hardly the level of performance you want from an economic policy official.
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