BTW, Pacifica Radio is awesome. I've been listening to The Pacifica Archive fundraiser and truly wish I had the $200 to donate a copy of their archive to my old high school. It's funny when KPFT runs programming from the California stations. Yall are too mellow. We got some hellraisers down here in Houston, which is exactly where they are needed. And all this is broadcast from a little mansion in The Montrose that was James Baker's boyhood home.

And remember the frustrated remnants of the local KKK who had been thwarted by the "Strange Demise of Jim Crow" campaign a decade earlier bombed KPFT shortly after its founding. These bombings resulted in the conviction of a few Klan leaders and spelled the end of the old Klan, though there are still a few neo-Klan groups out there.

His word was her marching order, she proclaimed, as the rapt studio audience nodded in approval, giving credence to surveys that indicate African Americans are more religious, more likely to subscribe to Creationism and more apt to break out the Bible for guidance and counsel than any other group in the U.S.

I know it's what was proclaimed, but are there any studies to back this up?

I'm glad this blog sees both sides. I'm *really* glad for this piece.

I wish I could say to some of the other atheist blogs that this blindness to issues of reproductive rights that disproportionately affect women may be one reason women can feel uncomfortable in the atheist movement.

First women get tossed under there, because we can't be having with taxpayer money coming within 1000 feet of money that pays for an abortion! (Pretty sure that's not how the FACE act works.) Now children of criminally negligent parents get tossed under there, too, having their absence-of-medical-care covered by an insurance company.

*Yes, I realize that it's always crowded under the bus. POC, PWD, women, LGBT folk, poor people, immigrants... when political compromise has to happen, usually one of these groups of Undesirables takes a hit.