All posts tagged "American Atheists"

A federal judge in the Eastern District of Kentucky dismissed a suit by the group American Atheists demanding that churches be subject to the same level of federal scrutiny as secular nonprofit groups. In the ruling, issued earlier this week, Judge William O. Bertelsman dismissed the case on the grounds that American Atheists, Inc. has not been sufficiently harmed by the preferential treatment shown to churches by the government.

A Florida county rejected for a second time an atheist group's request for a monument to stand alongside a display of the Christian Bible's Ten Commandments at the county courthouse. According to the Washington Post, the Williston Atheists plan to continue the fight to be equally represented alongside symbols of the Christian faith.

Organizers of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) have changed their mind and won’t allow an atheist group to host an information booth at this year’s event.

Alabama State Rep. DuWayne Bridges proposed an amendment to the state's constitution on Monday that would allow public schools and other state properties to display the Ten Commandments from the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. When Raw Story telephoned the legislator to ask if similar efforts would be made to display Judaic and Islamic documents, Bridges became angry and hung up.

American Atheists -- the group the erected the country's first atheist monument on government property -- has sent a letter advising the Montgomery, AL police that their "Operation Good Shepherd" program, which uses public funds to place Evangelical Christian pastors at crime scenes, is unconstitutional. Raw Story spoke with Dave Muscato of American Atheists, who said that the program violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.

In the interview embedded below, American Atheists public relations director Dave Muscato attempted to explain to right-leaning radio host Steve Malzberg why the secularist group is fighting the placement of a Christian cross at a Princeton, NJ memorial site dedicated to the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.