Oh religious people: you can never be sure if they love religion or secretly despise it. Why else would they resort to calling our free-thought movement "a religion" if not to criticize it? Obviously they recognize the fact that by definition, a religion is a creepy organization intent on pushing through their wacky agenda. While I agree this is a definite aspect of all religion, conflating our lack of beli ...

I had never heard of "You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International" (quite possibly the most terrifying name for an anti-gay organization), but after seeing this video of one of their horrible "lectures", I thought I might do a little digging on these scumbags. It turns out this organization has a habit of tricking schools into allowing them access to students through abstinence funded programs (your hard ...

So, according to this uneducated redneck madman, it doesn't seem to matter whether or not abstinence works. It's far more important that due to his old fashioned beliefs, kids should not be taught the safest ways to have sex. Watch him struggle to answer even the most basic facts concerning the total ineffectiveness of abstinence. Who needs evidence when you have blind belief? Here's a man so fantastically ...

As the UK continues to fund sectarian institutions, some politicians are beginning to warn officials that this trend will ultimately do more harm than good. Grassroots Liberal Democrats are "pressing" (whatever the fuck that means) the government to stop funding religious organizations, lest they be used as proselytizing tools. In east London, a new website aiming to promote sex education for young people " ...

You hear it over and over again: Christians are complaining as gays gain rights (the same rights as everyone else, in fact), they begin to lose theirs. More particularly, their "right" to openly discriminate is being challenged, and as people get sacked or lose career opportunities because of their bigotry, they're crying foul. Recently, a Christian doctor, Hans-Christian Raabe, who had been foolishly appoi ...

I love condoms. They've been around since ancient times; Egyptians would make theirs out of ceramic (ribbed for her pleasure I hope), while in the 16th century Europeans made theirs out of sheep intestines. Although their primary use is contraceptive, these useful little devices are used for all kinds of purposes, from makeshift waterproof containers to improvised explosive devices. Apparently, having a rub ...

Score one for the abstinence movement: a study, published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, found abstinence only teaching helped delay the age teens are having sex by as much as two years. Now, before you start cursing at the fact that the religious right is going to use this study to keep funding their veiled religious sexual education program, it's important to note even the people ...

ZOMGitsCriss (or Hot Atheist Chick as I like to call her) just made this new video making fun of the Christian side hug, the ridiculous attempt by abstinence idiots to mandate hugging. I think their efforts will backfire in a big way, anyway. I mean, if kids can't even keep themselves from fucking one another, why does anyone believe they'll be able to stop hugging like normal human beings. Make sure you wa ...

The abstinence movement is a fucking joke: the very premise that you can prevent kids from shagging each other by making them wear promise rings, taking pledges, or guilt tripping them has never worked, and it's not likely to change so long as our bodies are hard wired for sex. Hey, if we didn't want to bang one another so badly, there probably wouldn't be many of us around. Just look at Pandas. You can't e ...

If you want to be a citizen of the US, you have to get vaccinated for a variety of diseases. It makes sense, but something as simple as a shot never seems to go very smoothly in that country. Take the example of Simone, a young woman from the UK trying to get an American citizenship. The government wants her to be vaccinated for HPV, but she has refused saying as a devout Christian, she will not be having s ...