DefCon: Campaign to Defend The Constitution. Because The Religious Right Is Wrong
During our stem cell campaign, DefCon America ran two full page ads in the New York Times in May and June. Click here to see the ad from May. Click here to see the ad from June.

We also released our first video on YouTube featuring DefCon advisory board member and former NARAL head Kate Michelman's incredible story and by doing all we could to empower the millions of Americans for whom we are fighting. Click here to view the video.

To be sure, the fight for health and hope is not over. In the coming months, this fight will move to the states, where citizens are tired of waiting for a misguided President to do the right thing and have taken the issue into their own hands. Stay tuned to the DefCon Blog for updates.

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Blog Posts by Eliza

Taking a Break

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

We wanted to let you all know that this will be our last blog post, at least for now. Our funding has run out, so we will be taking a break. We want to make it clear that this is in no way an admission of defeat, we’ve had some spectacular successes and it is […]

Solution to the Drought? Pray!

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

Today Georgia’s Governor decided to finally take action around the devastating drough that continues to wreak havoc on much of the South. Did he finally impose strick water conservation measures, you ask? No, he held a prayer service on the steps of the capital building. According to the Associated Press:
As metropolitan Atlanta’s water supplies drain […]

Don’t Forget!

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Don’t forget to tune in to PBS tonight to watch a new documentary of the Dover Trial, Judgement Day: Intelligent Design on Trial.

Friday Open Thread

Friday, November 9th, 2007

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Religious Right Suffers Defeat in House

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

For the last several months, the Religious Right have been incredibly vocal in their opposition to the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), as we told you about in September. In a victory against discrimination, and a defeat for the religious right, yesterday the House of Representatives passed the ENDA. According to The New York Times:
The […]

Creation Museum: The Sequel?

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

According to Pacific Magazine, Answers in Genesis, the group behind the first Creation Museum, plans on building another museum on the island of Saipan, which is capital the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands:
A U.S.-based Christian ministry group wants to build a museum promoting a creationist museum on Saipan, and it has the backing of […]

Friday Open Thread

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

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Religious Right Takes On Its Own Myth

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

So there is a new book out, written by Bob Heath, the leader of Kids for Christ USA, the purpose of which is to prove to Americans that the Bible is not, in fact, illegal in public schools. According to One News Now:
In his new book How Are You Doing That?, Heath talks about how […]

Jindal Continued..

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Bobby Jindal’s recent victory to become Louiana’s Governor has gained national media attention. As we’ve told you in the past, Jindal has not been shy about his creationist leanings. So it’s not surprising that tucked away in the many articles about Jindal’s success are not insigificant paragraphs about his desire to see creationism taught in […]

Friday Open Thread

Friday, October 26th, 2007

It’s Friday, what’s going on out there?

Bad Week for Creationism

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

A 1955 paper widely used by creationists as proof that life on Earth couldn’t have happened without Divine intervention has been retracted by the author, who did not like the fact that creationists were using his paper to fuel their arguments. According to The New York Times:
In January 1955, Homer Jacobson, a chemistry professor […]

Dog Disproves Creationsim

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

According to a new study out of the University of Manchester in England, St. Bernard dogs have disproved the creationism theory:
Biologists from the University of Manchester say that changes to the skull shape of St Bernards over the last 120 years “can only be explained” via evolution and natural selection.
The research team analysed arrived at […]

Good News in Florida

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

According to the Orlando Sentinel for the first time, Florida public school children will explicitly learn about evolution:
Florida has written new standards for teaching science that for the first time say public-school students need to learn about evolution.
The proposed science standards, released Friday, call evolution one of the “big ideas” that must be taught as […]

Friday Open Thread

Friday, October 19th, 2007

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Vitter Takes Back Creationist Money

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Remember when we told you that Louisiana Rep. David Vitter had earmarked $100,000 of public money to fund the creationist group the Louisaiana Family Forum. According to The Times Picayune, Vitter has decided not to earmark the money, after all:
Vitter went to the Senate floor Wednesday and announced that “to avoid more hysterics,” he wanted […]

The Campaign to Defend the Constitution combats the growing influence of the religious right over American democracy, education, and scientific progress and leadership.