Good grief: we’re headed for a 2016 Legislative Session dedicated to the distraction of abortion politics. So signals new South Dakota Right to Life president and District 4…
Tag: religion
The Supreme Court of the United States yesterday refused to block a lower court order that Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk Kim Davis issue marriage licenses…
Sorry, no SkepDakota videos! Opportunities for enriching one-on-one conversations arose, and I couldn’t pass that up. Three friends, six hours—entirely worth the journalistic sacrifice. Thank you, dear friends, for…
I report today from SkepDakota, a conference for freethinkers of various stripes in Sioux Falls. I hope to do some interviews with fellow atheists, agnostics,…
Hat tip to JT Eberhard, Patheos blogger and upcoming SkepDakota speaker! How much might it cost your county government to follow Attorney General Marty Jackley’s bogus…
Sioux Falls has a new Jesus billboard: SkepDakota, South Dakota’s “premier freethought convention” happens next Saturday, August 29, at the Downtown Holiday Inn in Sioux…
I don’t like church, but I do like Lutherans. And Lutherans don’t like payday lenders… or at least they shouldn’t, says Lutheran theologian Anna Madsen. The pastor-blogger…
Mr. Kurtz roasts Allen Unruh for the conservative chiropractor’s anti-gay, anti-Supreme Court screed in that Sioux Falls paper. Analyzing Unruh’s words is usually a recipe for heartburn,…
Jonathan Ellis questions whether South Dakotans for Responsible Lending will be able to build an effective coalition to support its petition to cap interest rates…
Last week, Attorney General Marty Jackley told public employees that they could choose not to issue marriage licenses to couples their religion tells them not to like.…