I don't know if you guys remember me talking about this story last year or not. Basically, two women, Miller and Jenkins, were joined in a civil union and had a child together. Miller is the birth mother but they both adopted the child. Well, they broke up in 2002 and shared joint custody.  But a few months after the break up, Miller became an ( Read more... )

 
  A high school marching band in Sedalia MO had the cute idea to compare the evolution of brass sound with human evolution and fashioned their tees upon a monkey-to-man diorama, to coincide with thier band project, called "Brass Evolutions". But after only a few days, as reported in the Sedalia Democrat, some irate parents forced the band to ( Read more... )

Sour Grapes

Former Miss California sues over firing
Aug. 31, 2009, 3:45 PM EST
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean sued pageant officials Monday for libel, slander and religious discrimination, accusing them of telling her to stop mentioning God even before her controversial remarks against gay marriage.

Prejean sued ( Read more... )

Taken from PZ Meyer's blog, Pharyngula

Shame on Washington state

Category: Politics • Religion
Posted on: August 28, 2009 9:51 AM, by PZ Myers

My home state! In a region with some of the highest percentages of godless people in the country! And they have this awful law on the books.

Washington's law specifies that a person treated through faith ( Read more... )