The Morning Heresy 5/22/12: The Antidote
May 22, 2012
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We're only at the beginning of The Great Content Generation I predicted would be spurred by the Women in Secularism conference. Here are a lot of great reactions from bloggers around the atheosphere. See yesterday's Heresy for more immediate roundups, and the Twitter hashtag #wiscfi continues to spring up with reactions, photos, and witticisms.
The Morning Heresy 5/21/12: A Deep and Undulating Whoop
May 21, 2012
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Now that was a conference!
This was no egg-headed snoozer, this was no reiteration of why we like Darwin so much (not that there's anything wrong with those). The Women in Secularism conference was as fantastic, fulfilling, and enlightening an event as we could ever have hoped. Once a glimmer in Melody Hensley's eye, it brought together an excellent mix of thinkers and personalities that had everyone opening their eyes to new perspectives. (Oh, and Jennifer Michael Hecht gave a poetry reading -- how cool is that?) There's a lot already, as you'll see below, that's being said about this past weekend, and I'm sure it's only the beginning.
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The Morning-ish Heresy 5/18/12: Bio-Adjusting Mattress
May 18, 2012
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The Morning Heresy 5/17/12: Un-liked
May 17, 2012
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First things first. As our Facebook followers know, we uploaded a bunch of photos yesterday from the Castles along the Rhine cruise ("It went well, thanks," reported our boss), and while this usually is a non-event where all the images happily snuggle together in one fell swoop in a photo album, something went terribly pear-shaped with our program, and every single photo went into folks' news feeds individually, littering people's Facebook homepages with pleasant-yet-relentless images of happy secularists and scenic European vistas.
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The Morning Heresy 5/16/12: Tugging on My Kuiper Belt
May 16, 2012
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Urgent new action alert: The House version of the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act strips away crucial protections based on sexual orientation, religion, and nationality. We need you to take action right now to oppose this version of the bill, and to tell the House to take up the Senate version, which CFI supported.
The Morning Heresy 5/15/12: They Can’t Burn Our Internet
May 15, 2012
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The Morning Heresy 5/14/12: Share the Meat
May 14, 2012
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CFI's suit to allow secular celebrants to solemnize marriages in Indiana is sparking more attention.
Indy Star columnist Erika Smith looks at the state of marriage equality in Indiana, and says:
What Obama said was inspiring and what the Center for Inquiry is doing is amazing.
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The Morning Heresy 5/11/12: Bottomless Chum Bucket
May 11, 2012
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CFI-Indiana director Reba Boyd Wooden and member John Kiel do a great job being interviewed on WSBT television on CFI's efforts to end religious privilege in solemnizing marriages in Indiana. Reba says, "We shouldn't be forced to portray ourselves as religious. We should be able to [solemnize marriages] under a secular certification."
Obama and Marriage Equality: The Inspirational, the Cynical, and the Practical
May 10, 2012
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The Morning Heresy 5/10/12: Cortical Gyrification
May 10, 2012
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While millions celebrated yesterday what was a huge move forward, symbolically at least, for LGBT marriage equality, CFI championed marriage equality of another kind in Indiana.
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