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b'Atheist Comedy Experience - May 18 in Boise\\n\\nNEWS\\n\\nFour House Democrats have launched the Congressional Freethought Caucus\\n\\nRepresentatives Jared Huffman and Jerry McNearney of California as well as Jamie Raskin of Maryland and Dan Kildee of Michigan have launched the Congressional Freethought Caucus with the goal of pushing \\u201cpublic policy formed on the basis of reason, science, and moral values,\\u201d to promote \\u201csecular character of our government by adhering to the strict Constitutional principle of the separation of church and state,\\u201d and to fight against \\u201cdiscrimination against atheists, agnostics, humanists, seekers, religious and nonreligious persons\\u201d and giving \\u201ca forum for members of Congress to discuss their moral frameworks, ethical values, and personal religious journeys.\\u201d\\n\\nPaul Ryan forced the US House Chaplain to resign\\n\\nThe Chaplain of the US House of Representatives was given the choice of retiring or being fired by Paul Ryan. He chose to retire. Why would the Catholic House Speaker force out the Catholic priest serving as chaplain? It\\u2019s because Father Patrick Conroy used the opening invocation to encourage the House to not forget about poor people while debating the tax reform bill and also allowed a Muslim to offer an invocation.\\n\\nDOJ removed \\u2018need for free press and public trial\\u2019 and racial gerrymandering from internal manual\\n\\nAs part of an overdue but misguided revamping of a DOJ manual that guides federal prosecutors they removed in its entirety a section titled \\u201cNeed for Free Press and Public Trial\\u201d and also removed references to racial gerrymandering. They did add in language about dealing with leaks.\\n\\nProposed Tennessee constitutional amendment would add God\\n\\nThe Tennessee Senate passed House Joint Resolution 37 which has the goal of adding a line to the state constitution that says: \\u201cthat liberties do not come from government, but from Almighty God.\\u201d\\n\\nThis will have to be passed again by the state legislature and then be approved in a referendum that is in conjunction with a gubernatorial election, so the soonest it could be added is 2020.\\n\\nOklahoma bill allowing adoption agencies to discriminate against gays & lesbians passed\\n\\nOklahoma\\u2019s Adoption Protection Act has now passed both houses of the state legislature. This bill will allow adoption and foster care agencies to refuse parents whose lives violate the agency\\u2019s \\u201csincerely held religious beliefs\\u201d.\\n\\nHawaii becomes 12th state to ban gay conversion therapy for minors\\n\\n\\u201cMysteries and Myths with Megan Fox\\u201d is coming to the Travel Channel to look at history and archaeology\\n\\n\\u201cMysteries and Myths with Megan Fox\\u201d is coming to the Travel Channel. As a spokesperson for the show has put it:\\n\\n\\u201cFox has been obsessed since an early age with the history of ancient cultures, people and places \\u2014 always questioning their \\u2018documented\\u2019 story. Now she is embarking on an epic and personal journey across the globe, where archaeologists and experts will re-examine history, asking tough questions and challenging the conventional wisdom that has existed for centuries. The series will delve into some of the greatest mysteries of time, including whether Amazon women really existed or if the Trojan War was real.\\u201d\\n\\nWhy is Fox qualified for this? As she put\\u2019s it:\\n\\n\\u201cHistory only gives us a one-sided view of the truth. I haven\\u2019t spent my entire life building a career in academia so I don\\u2019t have to worry about my reputation or being rebuked by my colleagues, which allows me to push back on the status quo. So much of our history needs to be re-examined.\\u201d\\n\\nPeople flee \\u2018Avengers\\u2019 movie, lady leaps from theater balcony when man shouts about God\\n\\nISIS servers seized in Canada as countries launch coordinated takedown of propaganda network\\n\\nNorway party to seek ban on Islamic call to prayer\\n\\nFEEDBACK\\n\\nCaleb via email\\n\\nReally enjoyed today\\u2019s episode. I am presently working with a gay woman who talks shit about gay men being \\u201cnasty\\u201d. She claims to have been infected by the polio vaccine and ...'