Jordan McKinney

David Silverman of American Atheists, among others, was featured on a CNN special. One statement by David Silverman has caused a stir of controversy: CNN Anchor: “I’ve interviewed men and women, they say, ‘I’m a humanist, I’m a freethinker, I’m a skeptic.’ So many people won’t say, ‘I’m an atheist.’…

The American Family Association, known for its active promotion of religious and anti-LGBT governmental and social values, has produced a map of organizations in the United States “that openly display bigotry toward the Christian faith” – including KCAC: As Hemant writes on the Friendly Atheist: The American Family Association has…

By now, most of us have heard about the murder of three Muslim students at the University of North Carolina, which was followed shortly by Craig Hicks turning himself in for the murders. More relevant to the atheist community is that Craig was an atheist; moreover, he was an anti-theist.…

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. – Martin Luther King, Jr. As the day of observance of the works and influence wrought by Martin Luther King, Jr. and his co-activists (and those who followed…

November’s coming up fast upon us, and there are a number of ballot measures to be passed or rejected and offices to be filled with elected officials. We all want to be good and informed voters, so, if you’re looking for information on officials and ballot measures available in your…

Last evening, I had the experience of sitting in on the Roeland Park city council meeting as it heard from multiple members of the public speaking in favor of a non-discrimination policy that would protect employees in and citizens of Roeland Park against discrimination based on gender identity and sexual…

You may or may not have heard about how Ann Coulter’s attempt to capitalize on the “Bring Back Our Girls” meme has backfired pretty badly on her (or worked out well – I guess if she wanted to get her face out there, she succeeded). There’s one picture, however, that…

In light of the saddening decision by the U.S. Supreme Court decision to uphold prayer at town meetings, there seem to be some tones of “the atheists have been defeated!” going up in some circles. Putting aside the fact that the suit was filed by a Baptist group focused on…

Back in the days leading up to the Supreme Court hearing about a pivotal case regarding the federal government’s mistreatment of same-sex couples – during which your Facebook friends became indistinguishable behind an array of similar pink-and-red equality sign profile pictures – some friends chose to represent themselves as atheist…