Stop Funding for Abstinence-Only Education in Health Care Reform

Write to your Senators and tell them not to spend more of your tax dollars on these ineffective programs.
Evolution v. Creationism. Biotechnology and Morality. The Creator of God.


Don't Miss what the American Humanist Association has planned this November.
This Fall, Celebrate Darwin and the Origin of Species with NOVA!


Three films to debut this fall chronicle the remarkable history of Darwin and his groundbreaking theory of evolution.
Humanist Network News Podcast
In this month's podcast, hear from Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum, co-authors of the recently released Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future as they speak with Jennifer Bardi, editor of the Humanist magazine.
Join the Humanist Teacher Corps!


We're developing a new Humanist Teacher Corps in order to pass on humanist principles and values to the next generation. Click here to see how you can get involved.
American Humanist Association members receive a special discount on So Help Me God DVDs.

Get your copy of the film that follows one man's amusing quest for a spiritual life.
Sign our Petition to Keep Civics Classes Historically Accurate
The Texas State Board of Education is rewriting their social studies curriculum and we're keeping the pressure on to make sure the process isn't co-opted by religious conservatives who want revise history.

Sign our petition to keep the social studies curriculum historically accurate.
Not Too Late To Intern For The American Humanist Association
Though the school semester has started, it's not too late to get a fall internship with the one of the most exciting non-profits in the Washington DC area!

An individual or individuals have defaced a billboard in Moscow, Idaho… again. 
Vandals have blacked out—apparently with spray paint—part of a billboard in Moscow, Idaho that reads "Millions are good without God" so that the word "without" is unreadable. 
The Senate Finance Committee recently approved an amendment to the Health Care Reform bill that would bring back the failed Title V abstinence-only-until-marriage program—despite the fact that abstinence-only education is ineffective and raises serious concerns about the separation of church and state
IN THIS ISSUE
Comes a Horseman
by PZ Myers
The 2009 Humanist of the Year on how he lost religion and gained 2.5 million friends

SPECIAL BOOK EXCERPT Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe
by Greg Epstein

Memoir of a Spiritual Refugee
by Mary Garden

The Dog Delusion
by April Pedersen
Extreme anthropomorphism in modern dog culture.

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