February 19, 2012
- An atheist group has raised more than $40,000 as "scholarship" fund for Jessica Ahlquist, a 16-year-old student from Rhode Island who sued her public school and got a nearly 50-year-old Christian prayer banner removed from its walls.
February 17, 2012
- British comedian and actor Ricky Gervais told CNN's Piers Morgan on Thursday that telling a child that gays will go to hell is "child abuse."
- A Rhode Island public school board voted on Thursday not to appeal a federal court ruling that required the school to remove a 40-year-old prayer banner from its walls after an atheist student said it conflicted with her beliefs.
February 16, 2012
- A new billboard unveiled this week by an atheist activist group in Orange County, Calif. makes the claim that "Atheists make better lovers."
February 15, 2012
- Famed atheist biologist Richard Dawkins had a surprising "oops" moment during an interview yesterday, when he forgot the title of Charles Darwin's most famous book.
February 14, 2012
- Oral arguments were heard in a Massachusetts Superior Court on Monday over a lawsuit filed by an atheist couple who believe that their children are being discriminated against because the Pledge of Allegiance – which is said every day in Mass. public school classrooms under state law – contains the phrase "under God."
February 12, 2012
- The St. Paul Inside the Walls Evangelization Center in Madison, New Jersey will held a mock trial this week to debate the existence of God.
February 9, 2012
- "Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe has spoken out against Liberal Democrats in Britain and some U.S. GOP candidates – calling for gay marriage and relationship education in schools – in a tell-all interview with U.K. magazine Attitude.
February 7, 2012
- Atheist groups are targeting African-American communities by asking them to think about leaving their church during Black History Month – but a number of pastors and scholars are saying that is not going to happen any time soon.
February 2, 2012
- The Atheist group Freedom From Religion Foundation has vowed to sue the National Forest Service for renewing the contract of the Jesus Statue in Northern Montana, arguing on their official website that the statue's presence at the site is "unconstitutional."