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Agnosticism / Atheism July 2003 Archive

By Austin Cline, About.com Guide to Atheism since 1998

Fighting to Allow Gay Clubs at Schools

Sunday July 13, 2003
With the budgetary problems facing governments at all levels, you would think that agencies would avoid wasting funds foolishly - but not in Boyd County, Kentucky or in Lubbock, Texas. Read More...

Science Textbook Battles in Texas

Sunday July 13, 2003
Once again, a fight is brewing over what will appear in the science texts of Texas public schools. Will those texts, and thus also the classroom instruction, emphasize the place Read More...

Rick Santorum: No Regrets

Sunday July 13, 2003
Rick Santorum, United States Senator from Pennsylvania, is unapologetic about his remarks about gay couples and sodomy, even though the Supreme Court ruled that laws criminalizing sodomy, and especially those Read More...

Complimentary and Alternative Medicines

Sunday July 13, 2003
Questioning Healthcare: There's an awful lot in the news and in society about "alternative medicines" these days. By some estimates, it's an industry doing between $15 and $20 billion annually Read More...

Traditionalist Catholicism Growing

Sunday July 13, 2003
The Second Vatican Council instituted a number of important and modern reforms into the Roman Catholic Church - but not all Catholics were happy with those changes. Even today, there Read More...

Copyrighting Mother Teresa

Sunday July 13, 2003
Mother Teresa is one of the most famous Catholic figures in the world; now, nuns of the order she founded are looking to copyright her name in order to ensure Read More...

Crop Circles vs. Property Rights

Sunday July 13, 2003
Crop Circles are very popular among believers in the paranormal. Are they created by aliens? By beings from another dimension? No, they are fakes created by humans - but too Read More...

This Date in History

Sunday July 13, 2003
July 13, 1857: President James Buchanon selected Alfred Cumming to replace Brigham Young as governor for the territory of Utah. More: About Mormonism

Secularism in Nepal

Sunday July 13, 2003
Usually the idea of secularism and the creation of a secular state is opposed by Christians, Jews or Muslims. They, however, are not the only religions that may oppose secularism Read More...

Growth in Spiritualism

Sunday July 13, 2003
The belief system identified as spiritualism first developed in America during the 19th century. Today, it is making a real comeback - thanks largely to alleged mediums like Jonathan Edwards Read More...

Christianity's Fixation on Sex

Sunday July 13, 2003
Is Christianity too fixated on sex, sex acts, and human sexuality? Sometimes it certainly seems that way - and Martin Hogg, a member of the Scottish Episcopal Church and a Read More...

Should the Supreme Court Cite Foreign Laws?

Sunday July 13, 2003
There has been some complaint from conservatives that the Supreme Court's decision to strike down a Texas law criminalizing sodomy was flawed because it cited law from outside America. Supposedly, Read More...

Row Over Gay Bishop Turns Ugly

Sunday July 13, 2003
The Church of England is going through some very difficult times over the failed appointment of Canon Jeffrey John to be Bishop of Reading. A General Synod of the Church Read More...

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