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This excellent post by David Silverman at the NoGodBlog: Not Just Christmas really nails the issue:
OK Folks one more time: Christmas is secularizing BECAUSE it was made a national holiday. This is ONLY happening to Christmas because it is the ONLY religious holiday that has been nationalized — e.g, made mandatory for all Americans. I [...]

…then I don’t know what ever could. Virgin male in dress chastises gay people for their confused sexuality.  Go read it at Pharyngula.

Like being penalized–for not “being married”–by the very systems and institutions of the very society that denies them the right to marry, no less!  That’s double-sided prejudice, people.
Associated Press, Tennessee: Divorced mother appeals night ban on partner:
ACLU spokesman Paul Cates said the clause primarily affects lesbians and gays with children because same-sex civil unions are [...]

vjack of Atheist Revolution, War on Christmas Over, Christians Victorious:
In fact, it turns out that the only combatant in this bitter dispute, a handful of dimwitted Christians, have finally achieved victory over themselves. They have made a thorough mockery of the very holiday they were allegedly defending from imagined threats.
I’ll just bet Bill O’Reilly is thrilled [...]

California Attorney General Jerry Brown has reversed his position on Proposition 18 and has now filed a brief with the California Supreme Court urging the court to void Proposition 8.
What brought about the change? Well, apparently he decided to actually study the California state Constitution–a novel concept for an Attorney General, but not one without [...]

Hell yeah! Americans United for Separation of Church and State yesterday announced:
A federal judge today ruled that the state of South Carolina may not issue a special “Christian” license plate featuring a cross, a stained-glass window and the words “I Believe.”
Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which sponsored the litigation to stop [...]

The Freedom From Religion Foundation has installed a sign in the Washington State Capitol alongside a Christmas tree and nativity scene. The sign reads:
At this season of the Winter Solstice may reason prevail. There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth [...]

Associated Press:
FRANKFORT, Kentucky - A group of atheists filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to remove part of a state anti-terrorism law that requires Kentucky’s Office of Homeland Security to acknowledge it can’t keep the state safe without God’s help.
What the fuck? This is so patentently offensive as to be beyond imaginination. And, if you can’t [...]

I get so fucking furious every time some freedom-bashing pinhead tries to make the argument that if the rest of us don’t abandon our freedoms and conform ourselves to the pinhead’s personal belief system, then we are trampling or endangering or disrespecting the pinhead’s “religious freedom”. This time it’s the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops:
BALTIMORE — [...]

Drudge Report headline: “Condoms Over Abstinence in Obama AIDS Policy…” I can’t imagine the Drudge Report or it’s usual readers view this as a positive development, but those of us committed to rationality certainly do.
The linked story resides at Bloomberg, Condoms Trump Abstinence in Obama Global AIDS Policy:
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) — President-elect Barack Obama will reverse [...]