U.S. District Court Judge John Jones III nullified Pennsylvania’s ban on same-sex marriages on May 20 after quashing the teaching of intelligent design in public schools earlier.
Social networking and microblogging website Twitter sent a notice to Atheist Republic asking it to block certain URLs that it had posted in commemoration of Everybody Draw Mohammad Day.
After school in Idaho banned a controversial book from its reading list, a student at the school organized a free distribution of the book at a nearby park. This led to Christian parents demanding the book be banned across America.
Mariam Yahya Ibrahim had been charged with adultery for marrying a Christian man and been ordered by the court to abandon her newly adopted Christian faith to revert to Islam.
The Vatican released comprehensive records of sexual abuse cases revealing 2,572 priests have been sanctioned and 848 have been defrocked over the last ten years.
A group of clergymen filed suit in North Carolina challenging state laws that make it illegal for them to perform wedding ceremonies for gay and lesbian couples within their congregations.
An atheist family in New Jersey is suing the Matawan Aberdeen Regional School District over the phrase “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance that students have to recite every day.