Two more Justice Sunday III participants have been announced. We now have at least one politician — Sen. Rick Santorum — and of course Mr. Jerry Falwell.
Continue to look for suprises as January 8 approaches. We’ll keep you posted.

In the wake of Tuesday’s Dover ruling, where Judge John E. Jones called intelligent design out for the creationism it so clearly is, a key member of the religious right cut ties with the organization responsible for the trial. Of course this member’s about face only came after the scathing decision and, coincidentally, less than […]

DefCon board member Lawrence Krauss will be the guest on Fox News’ The Big Story with John Gibson tonight, discussing yesterdays groundbreaking Dover decision.
Krauss, a physics professor at Case Western, was a scientific adviser to the plaintiff team in the Dover trial. Gibson, on the other hand is the author of “The War on Christmas” […]

By Frederick Clarkson
When Roy Moore, the Chief Justice of the Alabama State Supreme Court, installed a two-and-one-half-ton granite monument to the Ten Commandments in the Alabama state courthouse in Montgomery in June of 2001, he knew it was a deeply symbolic act. He was saying that God’s laws are the foundation of the nation; and […]

In a wonderful turn of events Judge John E. Jones has ruled against the teaching of intelligent design. According to Jones, intelligent design is not science and deserves no place in PA science classrooms (you don’t say).
From Judge Jones:
The proper application of both the endorsement and Lemon tests to the facts of this case makes […]

Not enough focus is paid to the inherent contradiction that exists between many central tenets of faiths like Christianity and the Republican agenda.
While this reality holds true on issues ranging from welfare to foreign policy, an article in today’s Washington Post highlights yet another discrepancy. An anti immigration bill, endorsed by the Bush administration and […]

For six weeks in September and October, Judge John E. Jones presided over the Dover intelligent design trial. In preparation of his decision, which is expected this week, the New York Times published an interesting profile of the Pennsylvania judge.

Well it’s finally here. Almost. The judge in the landmark Dover, PA intelligent design trial looks set to announce his verdict as early as next week, dictating whether students in that District will be taught science or religious ideology.
While much of the science vs. intelligent design debate has focused on Dover and Kansas, two other […]

The religious right’s fabricated “War on Christmas” took a turn from ridiculous to offensive this week. On Monday, Concerned Women for America (CWFA) spokesperson Robert Knight appeared on CNN and compared those who would replace “Merry Christmas” with “Happy Holidays” to the Nazis!
As highlighted by People For the American Way (PFAW), Knight said, “You […]

Under pressure from the ever regressive American Family Association, Ford motor company has pulled ads planned to run in gay publications. In typical fashion, AFA threatened a conservative Christian boycott of the company’s Ford and Land Rover products unless they dropped their “pro-gay agenda.”
In an attempt at damage control, Ford executives met this week […]

Ted Haggard is the President of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), a coalition of organizations that represent over 50 million evangelicals. Haggard is also the head of one of the nation’s largest mega churches, New Life Church, located in Colorado Springs, CO.
By all standards he is a leading member of the religious right. He […]

For those of you who missed Catholic League president Bill Donohue’s rant on CNN yesterday morning regarding the Happy Holiday vs. Merry Christmas debate, I’ve pasted it below.
If you haven’t experienced his dazzling logic…..
People send me St. Patrick’s Day cards who are Italian. I don’t get upset about that.
It’s worth enlightening yourself:

Joining me now is […]

We at DefCon have spent an incredible amount of energy exposing intelligent design’s lack of scientific merit. We oppose the theory because it has not stood up to the rigorous standards of the field of science, and we oppose those who would use this theory to push religious ideology in our schools.
In short, intelligent […]

Kansas University’s Paul Mirecki was fed up with the hype around intelligent design. So he decided to do something about it. In November Mirecki, the chair of the University’s religious studies department, announced that he would be offering a new course in the upcoming semester: “Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design, Creationism and other Religious […]

Something fishy is definitely going on regarding Justice Sunday III. First they quietly changed the date from Dec 4, to Jan. 8. Second, despite massive promotion by the religious right for the first two events, there hasn’t been a peep from anyone regarding its most recent incarnation. All we know is the date, the place […]